But you can still check out the colorful bulbs at Nola’s Iris Garden
Every spring, Rich Santoro opens his backyard bulb garden in San Jose to visitors, who saunter around the thousands of colorful tulips, daffodils and irises. Santoro — known as “The Bulb Guy” — planted 15,000 bulbs last fall that are in bloom now, but he’s decided to take a year off from public visits — for a very personal reason.
Felisilda lived around the corner from the Santoros’ Berryessa home — they bought their homes a month apart from each other in 1976 — and Santoro says she’s at least partly responsible for the annual garden show. Back in 1985, Santoro and his wife went to show her sister a Cadillac El Dorado they’d bought and discovered her in the front yard with an apron filled with daffodil bulbs. Santoro assumed bulb gardening was difficult, requiring special fertilizers and maybe even an English accent. But he watched her and was hooked. He and his wife went out and bought 50 daffodils and buried them in their lawn.
They’re planning on having dinner in the garden in Carmen and Mauro’s honor this Sunday, enjoying the color and remembering their lives.
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