Tulip time

Inspired by the school of not-doing-things-by-halves

as exemplified by this garden

and many others

I decided last year to have a cutting patch for tulips.

When it came to actually paying for them and considering the effort

of planting such quantities of bulbs,

I reverted to type and managed only half a bed,

amounting to about forty tulips.

These I have been mightily pleased with however.

I supplemented my vases with some taken from Great Dixter.

Not stolen I hasten to add.

They were being sold for £1 a bunch.

I passed one of my old pound coins to them.

They have to be used up by October 15th.

At Kew they have planted a tulip meadow.

It's very effective but I'm not sure if they intended them

to be in flower at the same time as the pink blossom above.

Everything is so early this year.

And finally a display at a Spring Flower show,

the three identical blooms in a vase category.

I didn't enter.

Maybe next year.

Post script:

lovely even as they faded.