Tulips - spring 08
A quick confession - I like looking at pictures of our flowers from the garden - but don't like taking them. And I've no idea why.
Now Jiurie takes lovely photos and I'l try to share some of hers (and mine) when I don't have much to say - a picture is worth a thousand words after all.
Here's tulips from the garden in April 08 - beautiful flowers and lit from one side - she gets them big and sharp. I try to be all arty and look for the 'interesting angle' whereas jiurie just takes the photo and gets on with the next one. Ask the kids about me taking photos - think I'm David Bailey and go for the high position or the low position - the sun behind etc - overthink it I reckon.
Anyhow tulips from the garden - first year of growth (naturally - they're big and bright) - because next year they won't be as big because we haven't force fed them artifical fertiliser - the steroids of the plant world. However we did leave the leaves on for as long as I could so the bulbs may have built themselves up naturally - we'll see.
I mean the black tulips (Queen of the Night) from last year also didn't receive any fertiliser but still managed to throw up a fair display this year - those that the slugs didn't nip out or the rabbits have a go at - the wild rabbit youngsters like to nip at young plants just to see if they are edible - tulips aren't but they won't know that until they've given them a go. Unfortunaely the wild rabbits where we live bring up a litter every year - sometimes twice a year... so cute the wee un's until they have a go at the tulips - drifting Neil - drifting - FOCUS, FOCUS - David Bailey - yeah - I'll put more details on t'others I can find.
These are tulips - a couple of white parrot tulips in there too - but barely open and didn't fluff up like they do in the pictures in the flower brochures - filled in nicely between the end of the daffs and the start of the Alliums in May.