Garish Red Tulips
The snow is falling this morning, but I am ready for spring. Strike that, I can handle the snow, I just want flowers again. Clusters of hyacinth and drifts of tulips...a host of tiny daffodils marching through the woods...wafts of unidentifiable scents around every corner...the deliciousness of spring. Alas, at the moment, I have only found a few stray tulip points, one lonely hyacinth trying to emerge and a single clump of daffodils being brave and poking their heads above ground. It makes me search through old pictures to find what I am hoping for in the next couple of months:
I always fall for bright red tulips. They never match the colors of my gardens and they always look garish. I always cut them and bring them indoors for some cheer because they disjoint the garden. I am not sure why I love them and hate them so much at the same time.
This year, in this garden, I have tried to marry the best of both worlds. I have plenty of garish tulips planted down in the hollow and in separate beds (which will later hold veggies). However, the garden "real gardens" on and around the house are limited in color to those purples and creams, yellow, white and aubergine! If only the snow would stop and the parade would begin!
I always fall for bright red tulips. They never match the colors of my gardens and they always look garish. I always cut them and bring them indoors for some cheer because they disjoint the garden. I am not sure why I love them and hate them so much at the same time.
Fresh little grape hyacinths work much better in the fresh greens of spring...
Even better in the lawn itself...but look at those garish bits of red!@!
In spring, I crave the purples and greens, butter yellows and whites...
Fresh and new, crisp and clean, the promise of new life...
...but then there is the grandstanding DRAMA of a red tulip.
This year, in this garden, I have tried to marry the best of both worlds. I have plenty of garish tulips planted down in the hollow and in separate beds (which will later hold veggies). However, the garden "real gardens" on and around the house are limited in color to those purples and creams, yellow, white and aubergine! If only the snow would stop and the parade would begin!
