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Tulips

April 9, 2010 by Sherry

Lots of tulips blooming over the past few days here. Click photos to enlarge.

Large-flowered pink frilly tulip.
I can’t remember the name of these tulips, I know I bought them
from a Susan G. Komen benefit sale last year.

Orange and green Triumph Tulip

I’ve had these tulips for several years. They’re shorter than the
Darwin hybrids and come back reliably every year.

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I love these frilly pink tulips

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I made a new spring bulb flower bed around a natural rock outcropping and creek bed near the gazebo last year and planted a lot of mixed tulips and other spring- and summer-flowering bulbs. Quite a few of the tulips are in bloom now, with many more to come.

Spring bulb bed

Posted in Flowers, Garden, perennials, Photos, Plants, yard | Tagged darwin hybrid tulips, Gardening, spring bulb flower bed, susan g. komen pink tulips, tulips blooming | 4 Comments

4 Responses

on April 12, 2010 at 10:57 am | Reply Jim

Gorgeous tulips, Sherry. I always love the grape hyacith too. I always wonder if I should cut down the previous years foliage on the grape hyacinth? Although perhaps a bit ratty looking, it overwinters and remains green up here in CT and the flowers still keep coming up. Do you remove the foliage?
- on April 12, 2010 at 11:53 pm | Reply Sherry
  
  Thanks, Jim. I wish those ‘fancy’ tulips would look as good the second year as they do the first.
  
  I love those little hyacinths too. They work so well mixed with tulips and other spring flowers. I do snip the foliage when it turns completely brown and ratty looking.
  
  Thanks for commenting,
  -Sherry
on April 21, 2010 at 3:56 am | Reply Oh JoyLynn

Oh these are beautiful! I love tulips and this year I had some pop up that I didn’t even know that I had they where a brilliant yellow.
Question: what do you like to plant your tulips with?
- on April 24, 2010 at 10:33 pm | Reply Sherry
  
  Thanks, JoyLynn. I love tulips too, although I hate dealing with the foliage after they bloom. For that reason, I like to plant them among daylilies, that way the daylily foliage hides the dying tulip foliage. :)
  
  I do have them also in mixed beds, planted along with perennials and shrubs.
  
  Thanks for visiting,
  Sherry