April 12, 2011Tulips indoors
Tulips look cute in the garden and all that, but seriously, how often are you going to enjoy them there? When my few tulips (that come back every year since I bought my house) are blooming I bring them inside.
That way I can see them ten times a day if I want to, considering they only last a week at most.
whatever
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Cindy McNatt says:
I don’t generally plant tulips, mine were here when I bought the house. They are simple, single yellows, late bloomers I think (they’re blooming now) planted in sandy soil.
Lately I think they’ve picked up a virus. This year they have red stripes.
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:04 am.
Gayle McKennon says:
Your tulips in individual vases look very sexy! The picture would be lovely as a full sized print- or at least a screensaver. Hmm… I see one bright orange tulip in there that looks more like a poppy! I spent my childhood in North Hollywood, so naturally I enjoy your “chat” from out west. We had a dichondra lawn, a statuesque stand of eucalyptus trees, orange trees, a cumquat tree and a loquat tree, etc. Here on Cape Cod, we’re enjoying the delayed early dashes of spring color. Our tulips are far from blooming! But we have many smaller varieties of bulbs in full color now. One import from the Oregon Coast is doing well- montbrecia! It’s competing with the daylilies!
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:08 pm.
Janna says:
Your tulips look very pretty displayed like that and remind me of an banquet event that I attended some years back, so I thought I would share this as well.
I too love the little vases and have collected some over the years as there are lots of things to do with them. Besides spotlighting favs inside in a large group, I keep a row on my kitchen windowsill for little moments of beauty. These little vases are great when pruning removes some pretty blossoms.At the Beverly Hills Hotel I think it was,
the event I attended had done a simple but beautifully memorable floral presentation for the dining tables: dimmed lighting in the room, single little vases of different sizes mixed with single crystal candlesticks of different sizes as the centerpiece on crisp white tablecloths -it was beautiful and would be great for just one table centerpiece as well- we can all have a little “garden chic” indoors, even if formal floral arrangement isn’t exactly our forte. Enjoy you tulips while they last!
Sometimes we are so absorbed with our gardens (who us?) that we forget the changing beauty of a single bouquet of beautiful tulips that catch our eye at the grocery store! One of my favorite garden pleasures indoors is to put them in a beautiful vase somewhere against a wall that is in view a lot,
and that gets some adjacent light exposure. It is a joy to watch what twists and turns the stems make
and the flowers open as they change throughout the days! I think of our own changes in life as i look at them, and they remind me to look for the beauty in all its stages!
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:20 pm.
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nikkipolani says:
Are there particular varieties that have worked well for you?
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:43 am.