"a gift to the community"

Wayne Daniels, a.k.a. Tulip Man, spends hundreds of hours each year planning and tending his garden. Tulip bulbs don't sprout easily in Southern California, so he chills them in a refrigerator for two months before planting. A retired Fullerton teacher, Daniels spends hundreds of hours every year planning, planting and tending to 3,200 tulip bulbs in his frontyard. Neighbors call the bright display 'a gift to the community.'

(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / February 23, 2010)