Tulips

Posted on April 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Celsius, Cold, Colour, Daffodils, Gardening, Life, Plants, Snowdrops, Spring, Tulips, UK, Warm, WinterLeave a comment

Not this years ones, they haven’t opened up yet. But they are starting to grow up. I just can’t wait. I’m used to waiting for spring but sometimes it seems to take an awful long time to get here. A couple of weeks ago the temperatures were in the high teens Celsius, last week they dropped to freezing or below, and there was a snow in a few places across the UK. We didn’t get more than a bit of hail and snow here. Meanwhile the daffodils and snowdrops are up. We haven’t had much rain though, so the buds on the trees are not fully open yet…

Daffs

Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Confused, cut flowers, Flowers, hard cheese, Humour, Pizza, Plats, quiche, Shopping, Silly, sprouting bulbs, Tulips4 Comments

Get me some daffs to go with the tulips I said… So he did..

I also asked for some cheese for sandwiches, so he bought really hard cheese like parmizan which you would grate on to pasta. And the quiche I asked for turned into a pizza….

I don’t know if its a tactic to get over being asked to go shopping, I do wonder? I know supermarkets do substitute things, but to say that there was only one sort of cheese in the chiller cabinet? I guess he walked past the cheese and went to the Italian counter instead. And he told me there were lots of daffodil flowers for sale, he’d seen them earlier? But he came back with sprouting bulbs. Clearly he can’t hear or doesn’t understand.

Tulips

Posted on February 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Daffodils, Dragon, Flowers, Leek, Life, March, Spring, St David's day, Time, Tulips, Wales1 Comment

Tulips in the kitchen. Now I need some daffodils for tomorrow which is the 1st of March and St David’s day.

Wales has many symbols, the daffodil, the leek and last but not least, the Welsh dragon that appears on their flag.

It is always good to get to March, it is the start of the Metereological Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. I expect we will be blasted by March winds. But tulips and daffodils cheer me up.

May memory

Posted on December 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Day, Flower, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Life, May, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Scent, Spring, TulipsLeave a comment

Tulips bloomed

Scent filled the air

Warm breezes

Touched my hair.

purple flowers

Proud and bright

Give enjoyment

To my sight.

May was gentle

Soft and true

Forget-me-nots

Bloomed in blue.

Fine flowers

Grown up tall.

Magic bower

Soft waters fall.

Memory of

a lovely day.

Gives my heart

Delight today.

Tulips

Posted on May 7, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cheerful, Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Plants, Spring, Spring flowers, Spring Garden, TulipsLeave a comment

Such nice spring flowers. Bright, colourful, petals like satin. Soft and shapely. It’s no wonder that there was a tulip frenzy a few centuries ago. Tulips with colours that look like flames due to a virus. A single tulip bulb could cost more than a house. I think this was in Holland. My favourites are the dark coloured ones, deep magenta or purple, almost black.

Yes tulips are one of my favourites. You have to remember to plant them deep enough about double the depth of the bulb I think? They tend to fade a bit in their second year but they give a good show if planted in drifts.

More plants

Posted on August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Blogging, Bulbs, Gardening, Gazenia, Life, Pelagoniums, Planting, Plants, TulipsLeave a comment

Ivy leaf pelagoniums and a gazenia (not sure of spelling). We saw them for sale at a florists in Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme today. I decided to get them as the weather is changing and I want to extend the flowering season in the garden. We also got some cyclamen including normal ones, and some called petticoat cyclamen which are more splayed out than the original type. I picked up a red sedum too.

It’s heading towards autumn now. I noted a tinge of broken or red on some of the trees as we were driving over to Wolstanton. It will be here soon. The nights are drawing in too.

When we got home I popped to the shops. While I was there I was tempted and grabbed a box of mixed tulip bulbs, and another one of various small flower bulbs. Gardening is a wonderful occupation. Try it if you can.

Tulips

Posted on May 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aqualegia, Bluebells, Exercise, Gardening, Layout app, Lesser celandine, Photo, Plants, Russian vine, Tulips, Wild garlicLeave a comment

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This image was something I did last year. We had some pure white tulips in the garden.

This year we have had less tulips. I think because our squirrel has taken to digging them up in the winter. We are going past the tulip season now. Instead we have Spanish and English bluebells, aqualegia starting to flower and wild garlic and lesser celandine adding splashes of colour to the garden.

Today we were pulling out hunks of ivy from the ground and from trees where its thick stems have scrambled up. We will fill our recycling bin completely over a couple of days. I was also pulling more pieces of Russian vine out of the trees at the front of the garden, it’s amazing how quickly it grows.

Tired and achy. But it’s good exercise.

Tulips

Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Growing, Memories, Old photos, Photo, Plants, Squirrel, Time, TulipsLeave a comment

These were growing in our garden six years ago. The garden is more overgrown now and we didn’t put in as many tulips this year. I will have to put in more next year. Part of the problem is also the squirrels digging them up. I think they eat them in the winter.

Tulips were precious plants in centuries gone by. Some were more expensive than gold. I can remember the details, but they are beautiful plants. I’m afraid this post is a little lacking in detail. I shall try and add more to it.

Last year’s Tulips

Posted on May 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Layout app, Life, TulipsLeave a comment

I’ve not had much time in the garden recently and missed most of the daffodils and tulips so here are some tulips from last year. Things have also got a bit squashed by some building and gardening work, I want to get back out there and tidy things up.

There are a few patterns created by duplicating the photos using the layout app on my phone. I hope you like these.

Daffodils

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Daffodils, Garden, Gardening, Life, Plants, Pruning, Spring, Tree, TulipsLeave a comment

These are from our garden. The reason why they are not still in the garden? We had to have a tree cut down and they were likely to be squashed underneath its limbs. And so they are now in a vase in the kitchen.

In fact we have had a lot of work done over the last couple of months so plants have been squished a bit. We also need rain to bring the perennials that are still dormant underground into leaf and flower. Hopefully we will have some more significant rain in the next couple of weeks.

I particularly love the tulip flowers. I go for dark rich colours….. If we ever get the garden done I will post some photos.

Mallaband-Brown

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