I think this was taken in Birmingham (the US one). I have never got used to travelling the US and coming across signs for Bolton, Oxford, Egypt etc. I always experience a weird, fleeting feeling of ‘where am I?’ when I see one.
The flower heads seem uniform at first glance, but each is at a slightly different angle, and thus, attitude.
It made me think I’d like to see one of those film effects created by taking a picture once a day, then playing them together to get a speeded up version of the flowers growing. Then again, for one who does not like snakes, perhaps not!
Because the speeded-up growth would remind you of a snake? I think the tulips in this were caught at a prime moment: there is still the vestige of bud about them. I would love to wave some kind of wand over them and command them to stay like that.
Never used to like tulips but I certainly do now. Oh and a tip for keeping cut tulips from flopping over in a vase or to help erect droppy ones – add a copper coin to the water in the vase. Don’t know why it works but it does.
It is quite nice, but I much prefer it during the warmer part of the year. The best time to visit it is usually in May. By then should be spring, much warmer and a lot of flowers blooming.
Also it is a good starting point if you would like to go to Niagara Falls.
Who let the violas in? (or are they pansies?) I hope it isn’t “wordless” comments that are expected, Susan 😉
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I’d call them pansies, but I dare say they are both. 🙂
It’s a good example of underplanting, isn’t it, and nicely mulched with bark too.
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Indeed impressive, and nicely captured 😊
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Wonderful display
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I think this was taken in Birmingham (the US one). I have never got used to travelling the US and coming across signs for Bolton, Oxford, Egypt etc. I always experience a weird, fleeting feeling of ‘where am I?’ when I see one.
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Thank you! I needed this!
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The flower heads seem uniform at first glance, but each is at a slightly different angle, and thus, attitude.
It made me think I’d like to see one of those film effects created by taking a picture once a day, then playing them together to get a speeded up version of the flowers growing. Then again, for one who does not like snakes, perhaps not!
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What beautiful colors!
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The tulips are bold – not quite pink and not quite purple.
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Because the speeded-up growth would remind you of a snake? I think the tulips in this were caught at a prime moment: there is still the vestige of bud about them. I would love to wave some kind of wand over them and command them to stay like that.
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That would be an in-demand skill! I think the imaginary film would show them wiggling quite a bit to get to their current state.
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Power to the tulips!
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That sounds like it ought to be a song.
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Never used to like tulips but I certainly do now. Oh and a tip for keeping cut tulips from flopping over in a vase or to help erect droppy ones – add a copper coin to the water in the vase. Don’t know why it works but it does.
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How strange. A bit like the way you are supposed to put an upside down spoon or fork in an open bottle of champagne to keep it bubbly?
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Soon now!
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We hope!
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I love pansies. They look so pretty planted in there. Have you seen the movie Tulip Fever? I was surprised by how much I liked it. Really quirky.
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No – I’ll look out for it. I read Orchid Fever years ago, but that’s not quite the same thing 🙂
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It was nice surprise. Slow, but I can handle that if it’s interest. Who would have thought it was a true story!
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Tulips and pansies … a lovely combination 🙂
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The perfect bedfellows.
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So beautiful!!! And we have here in Toronto area still very cold spring, almost like winter or early March.
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I have heard that Toronto is a wonderful place, though I’ve never been.
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It is quite nice, but I much prefer it during the warmer part of the year. The best time to visit it is usually in May. By then should be spring, much warmer and a lot of flowers blooming.
Also it is a good starting point if you would like to go to Niagara Falls.
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