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Will the Christmas Cottontail visit your garden?
Once upon a time, on a snowy Christmas Eve, a scared little bunny was out foraging for some food when he came across a bunch of carrots that had been left out for Santa’s reindeer. He could hardly believe his good fortune at finding something to eat. But just as he was about to take a nibble out of one of the carrots, he heard the soft ringing of jingle bells and looked up to see Santa Claus looking down on him.
Taking pity on the poor, hungry bunny, Santa let him eat some carrots and then took him back to the North Pole where he named him the Christmas Cottontail.
Because no one at the North Pole gets to just sit around eating carrots and cookies all day long, Santa Claus asked his gardening elves to teach the Christmas Cottontail how to scatter seeds and plant bulbs as fast he could flick his whiskers.
Now every year on Christmas Eve, the Christmas Cottontail packs up all his seeds and flower bulbs, checks his list of nice gardeners and not-so-nice gardeners, and flies off with Santa Claus and his reindeer for their around the world journey.
At the nice gardeners’ houses, the Christmas Cottontail scatters the seeds and plants the bulbs that bloom at Easter time. At the not-so-nice gardeners’ houses, he stays in the sleigh and waits for Santa. At every house he looks for carrots left for the reindeer and sneaks a bite or two for himself and then gives the rest to the reindeer.
Gardeners then have to wait until spring to find out if the Christmas Cottontail visited their gardens on Christmas Eve. If there are blooms in early spring it means the gardener was nice and the Christmas Cottontail worked his magic. If there are no blooms in the springtime, it means the Christmas Cottontail decided the gardener was not-so-nice and stayed in the sleigh.
I hope that everyone has been a nice gardener this year and can look forward to many blooms this spring! Merry Christmas to all!
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