Tulips

[puddleshark]

The tulips that I planted last November are all in flower (though yesterday the west wind, gusting at forty-five miles an hour, was doing it's best to flatten them...)



I ordered three bags of tulip bulbs last year: one bag of mixed bulbs (I like mixed bulbs, for the !surprise! element), one bag of St Petersburg (pink tulips, I believe, but none of them are in flower yet), and one bag of Tulip praestans Shogun (orange... unexpectedly orange).


Fringed tulip, one of the surprises in the Mixed Tulips bag of bulbs.


Tulip praestans Shogun. A short tulip, which flowers really enthusiastically, with multiple flowers on each stem. When it first came into bud, I wasn't too impressed - the buds are a bright Donald Trump orange. But when the sun comes out and the flowers open like orange stars, they really are beautiful.

Comments

[summersgate]

Beautiful tulips! To have surprise tulips is very cool.

[puddleshark]

Mixed bulbs are so much fun - you plant them in November, and have no idea what will emerge in Spring!

[kaishin108]

Wow those are gorgeous!
That darn wind, picking on tulips ;-)

Yes, I like surprise tulips too!

The location of mine are a bit of a surprise as we had sprinkler work done and some erm got rearranged :-D :-D

[puddleshark]

LOL.

I replant the bulbs from my containers in the garden after they finish flowering, but it's a very random process - just stick 'em in the ground wherever there is room - so I have no idea what I planted where until they flower the following year.

[kaishin108]

It does make for a nice surprise in the Spring if you don't know what color is going to come up where! :-D

[asakiyume]

The fringed tulips are so pretty--I'm imagining someone going around with fine, tiny scissors to get that effect.

[puddleshark]

LOL.

"Of course, only the best houses employ master tulip trimmers..."

[asakiyume]

"Of course, only the best houses employ master tulip trimmers..." Yes!! Now I'm imagining a tulip trimmer as the protagonist in a fantasy whodunit.