Source: Mackensy Lunsford, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 3/21/20

This is the time of tulips.  This is the time of coronavirus, and Emily Copus, the grower behind Carolina Flowers, has a crop of about 8,000 tulips she needs to sell. Tulips are hardier than you might think, said Copus. They have a personality. "They feel substantial — they have a presence among flowers that is more like an animal almost," she said.

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