Growth Charts

Several classes decided to plant tulips because of the KidsPost story last fall. Among them:

Kids in grades 1-3 at the Barrie School in Silver Spring planted three bulbs each. One side of their flower bed bloomed first. Ashvika Rao, 8, noticed that those tulips got more sun.

At Cherry Run Elementary in Burke, the tulip project was added to first-graders' study of the seasons. The kids have a partner school in Rochester, New York. Robert Alam, 7, said it's fun to hear about tulips from faraway friends.

Kids at Arlington's Nottingham Elementary planted 100 bulbs. Besides learning about tulips, they learned to be patient. As Miranda Manka, 7, noted: "It takes time for tulips to grow -- just like us."

Rockledge Elementary experimented: Bulbs were planted too deep, not deep enough and in other unusual ways. The result? Nothing grew at the Bowie school. "That shows that it's important to plant the bulbs correctly if you want them to bloom," said Molly Dick, 9.