Humans are part of a greater force of nature, and we isolate ourselves from it, because we want to live among each other, our people.   The bigger picture is dangerous.  In addition to, what, garbage pick-up and sewer service? our governing bodies protect us from it.

We're safer living vertically, one box atop another, but "Bulb" returns us to the garden and throws us in as participants, joining the other pollinators, although our controlling husbandry tends toward the clip and clone approach.   "The imposition of our will upon nature's will is part of nature's will."

While the gardeners plan to follow the advice of their brokers to move their bulbs to softer ground, they eat a sleep inducing bulb and fall asleep, tranquilized.