My tulips are flopping, and I rather love them that way. Of course I’ve not cut them from my own garden – these glorious beauties are from a kind friend…
Read moreDay 1: Betwixtmas
Back in your inboxes and the blog after the year we won’t mention, and belatedly shovelling tulip bulbs into the ground like some kind of demented squirrel. It’s what Betwixtmas is all about.
Read moreDay 126: Tulip 'Queen of Night'
Just as you start to worry that the tulips have had it, Queen of Night appears, reliably in time for the May bank holiday…
Read moreDay 117: tulip fire
The closest I want to get to fire in my tulips are the bold markings on the fabulous petals of the viridiflora variety, ‘Flaming Spring Green’ …
Read moreDay 114: forget-me-nots and tulips
Forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) must rank high on the list of glorious self-seeders of which the over-zealous garden tidier might inadvertently deprive themselves…
Read moreDay 89: anticipating tulips
I’ve marvelled at hellebores, paid my respects to snowdrops, learned to love daffs and greated my favourite narcissus with joy , but all the while, I’ve had this sense of anticipation in the back of my mind, and the waiting is almost done…
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gardeninspo365 Day 1 – tulips
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