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.