I don’t often show wide shots of my garden, but I’m pretty pleased with how my tulips turned out this year. And not a single deer nibble yet.
The hyacinths and early daffodils and tulips have done their thing and been snipped off by now, and I overplanted the new bulbs with violas last September, so these barrels have been blooming in one way or another for eight months. I literally could not fit another single flower in them—although I could’ve stuck a few in that empty pot.
This is the first year I’ve planted tulips in this area (just off the end of the patio). Barcelonas are one of my favorite of all tulips and I should probably have just planted a mass of them here. I can only take pink flowers in small doses, but those Pink Impressions on the end have glowed in the gloom all spring and definitely earned their keep—unlike the dark purple Queen of Night that don’t show up very well in such a dark spot. But I got those free for ordering so many bulbs, so I’ll call it a wash.
I just had to have these soft yellow tulips (can’t remember their name) and those Double Princess Irenes for the flower pots on the front porch, but they were only available on end-of-season clearance in minimum batches of 100, so I planted the leftovers around this tree and they look prettier than the ones in the front porch pots, which I’m not showing.
And this is my cheerful happy place: my veggie beds and my most favorite of all tulip colors: red and orange. Sigh. If only those boxes were full of greens by now.
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