Tiptoe

I'm putting this year's poor showing for tulips behind me and giving them another try. Madeline and I went off to Greengate one afternoon last week and I was delighted to see that I could purchase tulip bulbs individually! Whee! I bought three each of six different kinds.

Menton

Anna Jose

Creme Upstar

Blue Spectacle

Silverstream

World's Favourite

I'm entirely sure why the tulips I'd planted in the fall of 2003 didn't bloom this year, but my theory is that I needed to plant them a few inches deeper for this climate and shouldn't have been so quick to trim the foliage down. We'll see ...

Comments

[Ani]

So lovely!

[Helen]

Beautiful choices!

[Claudia]

Those are so lovely. I have to track down a nursery to do the same for our house. I completely neglected the garden this year. Beautiful choices.