The weather was oddly balmy for November in New England, and Erika Rumbley, the newly appointed director of horticulture at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, was in a rush to leave Zoom and plunge her hands into the warm dirt outside. “We’re hustling,” she says, referring to a new shipment of bulbs that had just arrived. “We started yesterday, and we are planting away. It’s over 7,000 bulbs in 1,300 pots. We have hyacinth, crocus, daffodil, and tulip, but we’re also including lots of strange Dr. Seuss–like bulbs such as Fritillaria.” Read the full story here.
