Ready to bloom!

A large bed of 'Orange Bouquet'

Oh, my! That will be gorgeous!

How many bulbs do you have in there? And are they newly planted (this year?) or do they come back year to year?

There are 750 bulbs in this bed, planted last October. I treat tulips as annuals. This pic was taken Thursday (4/24), almost in full bloom - today they are all open, but I didn't get a photo - I'll try one tomorrow.

That will be gorgeous! I like the columns too.

Can't wait to see the next pic (and photos of your summer garden, too!)

BTW Who is your favorite tulip bulb supplier?

Keep the photos coming! t.

Here's the latest. The name is 'Orange Bouquet' but they look red to me!

They look rose to me in the photo but whatever they are, they are wonderful in that mass planting.

Susan

Some more lovelies from your garden! So many!

They also seem to be long-lasting, which could also be a product of a nice cool spring in our area. Yesterday the high temperature was 60, with a low of 39, which helps keep the blooms on bulbs.

A grand display! What will replace the tulips when they're done?

GOOD question!

Last year I placed a large Angel's Trumpet in the middle and filled the rest of the center with chartreuse sweet potato, but the rabbits had a field day at my sweet potato 'buffet'! The Angel's Trumpet had been in full sun on the patio the previous summer (photo below) and was WAY too big to put back on the patio (I let it go dormant in the basement over the winter and brought it back out to plant in the garden in May)

The sweet potato vines got chewed up by rabbits and there was too much shade in this bed for the Angel's Trumpet to bloom properly, so I considered that experiment a failure. This bed only gets 2-3 hours of sun in the summer. The Red Canada Cherry trees (on the east side of the bed, along a creek) block the morning sun and the huge oak trees in my yard shade it from about noon on.

I'm contemplating forming a knot garden with Winter Gem boxwood and then planting clusters of begonias in the openings in the knot - then this fall I would plant tulips in the holes.

I'm open to suggestions!

Beautiful Tulip display! I hope you post it on the photo forum so others can enjoy it too. (-:

Interesting strategy about your post tulip garden. That shade always seems to be a challenge, if the rabbits don't do their damage first!

Here's what it looked like May 5 - glowing in the afternoon sun

Here's a close-up of the bloom - I am still not quite sure why they call it 'Orange Bouquet'!

What a treat to have those in your garden! I have seen the 'bouquet' syle tulips in the catalogs but have never seen them in anyone's garden...

WOW! Awesome!

I treat them as annuals too. They do crappy (that's a technical term!) after the first season I find.

My few tulips behave as annuals, too. And desert buffet for rabbits and deer!