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I really enjoy this time of year when they start popping up.
I guess you do every time *it* pops!
I'm confused by this thread, lol. But my tulips are in bloom, and I'm enjoying them. I got one oddity - I did not plant any tulips that looked like this:
http://home.comcast.net/~wickeddelight/streakytulip1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~wickeddelight/streakytulip3.jpg
I love flowers. I dunno what zone you live in, but if it's mine or similar (zone 6) I'm happy to give tips on what grows well.
Someday I want to do the art for a plant-breeding game like Plant Tycoon. http://www.ldw.com/plant_tycoon.php (Btw anyone who looks at this game, I've heard they screwed up the phone version when they added the ads; if you want to play the hour-long free trial it's preferable to do so with the PC version.)
That made me smile. Maybe she's christening a new set of tools with a fertility rite for a new year of planting - when tulips bloom is the time to put the first seeds in the ground. (I came up with that because I was having difficulty believing any tools that had been used for gardening would ever be clean enough to do that with, lol. Mine always have mud everywhere. )
Hey, are you familiar with butterfly daffodils? They are blooming now too, I always thought they had a Georgia O'Keefe sort of look, iykwim. They even come in pink.
Oh, some other tips for actual gardening - columbines are a nice thing to plant mixed with tulips, because when the tulips are in bloom the columbines are shorter and have pretty leaves, and when the tulips are done the columbines get big, conceal the dying tulip leaves, and bloom for pretty much the rest of the year until the first frost. Columbines come in some great shapes and colors too. Their only minor downside is if you plant them as seeds they won't bloom the first year, but it's significantly more pricy to buy them as potted plants. Peonies are the same way - a shrub that flowers year after year, comes in a nice assortment of shapes and colors, but if you plant them the cheap way as roots they won't bloom the first year. Daylilies even more so, if you plant them as roots they may take 2 years to bloom.
Um yeah...the "2 lips" really threw me for a loop Throbbs.
And Sunshadow, I too see O'Keefe in those beautiful flowers.