Left to right above in front of a section of tulips are Ed Resen's neighbor Crystal McNeil and her daughter, Pat Isbell – Cheney Kiwanis Club, Ed Resen and Betty Ray (with a grandson) of the Cheney Gardners Club.
Ed Resen has been gardening for a long time.
At least since the late 1960s, which is when he and his wife moved into their Cheney house at 927 Oakland St. As Resen began his hobby, he kept collecting spare tulip bulbs, which he immediately planted - year after year after year.
Resen's neighbor across the street to the west, Crystal McNeill, said he once told her he estimates there are now probably 5,000 tulips that bloom in beds in front along Oakland, along the side of the garage and in two large beds on either side of the backyard.
"Feel's more like 10 (thousand)," Resen said.
Those splashes...
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