Why did a yellow tulip appear in my backyard when I did not plant it?

I don't use my backyard. There's a cherry blosson tree and a patch of rectangular soil surrounded by a pebble and stone barrier in it. My dog uses this rectangular patch of soil to "go" and then we clean it up (kind of like a big outdoor litter box).





A week ago a yellow tulip appeared in this rectangular patch of soil. I didn't plant it, neither did my mom, or my dad. My backyard is surrounded by a ten foot picket fence, so I don't think anyone climbed over it to put it there. Also, they wouldn't have made it far before my dog (German-shepherd/husky) would have attacked them.





How did this happen?

Why did a yellow tulip appear in my backyard when I did not plant it?
I don't think the bird pooping answers are logical...tulips come from bulbs.


I think more along the lines of the squirrel digging it up





or someone else planting it there before you


how long have you lived there?
Reply:It's possible that the bulb was left over from someone else's planting in the past and just now had the right conditions to grow. I don't think a bird pooped a tulip bulb. Unless it was Big Bird...lol
Reply:Maybe a squirrel buried it there (last year). Or maybe it was there but needed more than a couple years or more to bloom again since it was either malnourished (bad location) or getting broken off early each prior year.
Reply:I would say a squirrell dug it up and buried it there for winter food.
Reply:Because beautiful things find beautiful people.
Reply:Squirrels will eat tulips - it is possible that one dug up a tulip bulb that someone had set out to plant and stored it away your backyard
Reply:the answer is probably a squirrel for dug it up from somewhere else and buried it to keep for a snack later on but forgot about it.





My neighbours have received a few of my tulips that way!!!
Reply:maybe a bird dropped the seed/bulb there, or some other animal like a squirrel.
Reply:when a bird eats a seed it may not brake down.


so when the poo they can poo a seed.


so that mite how the tulip got there.