flowers

[low_delta]

It finally warmed up last week. When we left for New York, there were only a couple of tulips that were starting to open. When we got back, most of them had opened, plus some irises, jacks-in-the-pulpit, and a few more.


These tulips are a little bit past their prime.

Comments

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

I really like that variety! Mine are just the old-fashioned kind; not multiple-petaled.

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

Wow! I need to google multi petaled tulips so I can see what they look like after just blooming. I didn't know there was such a thing! They are beautiful even when they are past their prime.

Heidi put a "rock garden" over her flower bed but must not have taken her bulbs out. I think she thought the material over the dirt and then the rocks would stop the flowers and I would have thought the same thing but nope. Even the Hostas are coming up a little through it all.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

You mean she just covered it with gravel? No, that won't stop big plants, or even most smaller plants. Persistent ones will find a way. You have to put weed barrier cloth down, and also dig some of them out first.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I love these photos!

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

It isn't gravel but they aren't large stones. She did have them put the weed barrier down. I think Tulips and daffodils must be very hardy and tenacious. She should have taken out the bulbs.