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Tulips galore
After talking about planting my bulbs for the last month and half, I finally planted my tulips yesterday. I always have the intention of picking my tulips carefully so there are colourful blooms from early spring to late spring. But despite my best intentions, I usually succumb to the siren call of pretty colours and pleasing shapes.
My first selection, the early spring blooming Triumph tulip, ‘Prinses Irene,’ mesmerized me with the colour of its blooms, a beautiful rich purple flame on orange petals. And it’s fragrant to boot.
What attracted me to the late spring blooming Tulipa greigii ‘Toronto’? Well, the name. I lived in Toronto for a couple of years. And it has 4 to 6 rosy red blooms on each stem! Although hybridized tulips don’t usually live as long as species tulips, ‘Toronto,’ a Greigii hybrid, lives almost as long.
With ‘Prinses Irene’ blooming in early spring and ‘Toronto’ blooming in late spring, it would have made sense for me to pick a mid spring blooming tulip. But no, I only bought packages of ‘Toronto’ and ‘Prinses Irene.’ So, I am left with a blooming gap
Written by Cristina da Silva
Thursday, November 3, 2011 in Plants
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