can't hardly wait ...

There are tons of tulips in bud in the garden. I'm not sure where I planted which varieties back in the fall of 2005, so I'm extra excited to see what happens in the next few weeks! The thing that I am the most confused about are the tulips in the first photo. I didn't plant any bulbs in the fall of 2005 that would seem to yield orange/purple blooms. I planted bulbs that might in the fall of 2003, however. Could they be my Princess Irenes? I thought that I ruined the bulbs by snipping all the greens after they bloomed in 2004. They didn't bloom in 2005 at all. I didn't purposefully dig up their bulbs when I planted my second batch of bulbs that fall. I'm really curious, especially since I wasn't around last season to see what happened. The idea that those old bulbs might have become viable once again might explain the apparent proliferation of purple buds in the flower bed. I know that I planted three more Negrita bulbs, but I've got at least three groupings of them. I did plant the variety back in 2003 as well ...