Hallelujah! Winter is almost over, she shouted. Okay, that may be stretching it a bit but there are definite sightings of tulip buds rising above the leaves in the veg patch and mini tulips in flower in the car park garden. This is most unusual, even if we are only days away from March, the meterological start of the spring season. It all seems a bit too soon, to have tulips in February; I mean, the snowdrops are barely bowing out and daffodils have just hit their stride. So these tulips are most unexpected - but after a long wet winter, I'll take whatever signs of imminent spring I can get.
One of the tall tulips in the Fruit Tree border of the Veg Patch. Hmmm, thought I’d dug all the yellow ones up ... |
A fact I discovered just recently was that short tulips flower earlier than their taller relatives. Please tell me I'm not the last to know! This I find eminently sensible (even if they do normally wait until late March/April to bloom). Wintry weather, and certainly the wild weather we've had this year, would ravage the taller tulips (the ones the foxes don't trample first!) but I was still surprised to see several of these red/yellow mini tulips ready to open at the weekend. Especially as I planted only tall tulips in this bed last year and most of those were transferred to pots when I needed the space for my gooseberry bushes. Maybe, like me, they've just got shorter with age.
Ooooh...lovely.xxx
ReplyDeleteDina, you made me chuckle there! Indeed, what more needs to be said? The end of winter is nigh ... xxx
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