A bed of tulips underplanted with snapdragons, themselves underplanted by pansies, offered a subject too colourful to resist.
A dull, still day would have been less of a challenge, but I loved how the tulips glowed with the sun behind them and danced on the wind.
The flowers were grown as disposable bedding, valiantly playing their part in a sequence of plantings designed to brighten up a retail area.
While it is tempting to add pictures showing what became of them, for now at least, I’ll content myself with these cheerful ones.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
Just beautiful pictures! Love them all!
Thanks, Diane.
That’s a snazzy addition to a retail area; the tulips are especially pretty. We don’t have tulips, of course, but our snapdragons and pansies are long gone, exchanged for warmer weather plants.
Pansies are happy during our summers which are tame by your standards. But this was taken a few months back in Mississippi with a similar timing to the one you mention. Tulips don’t grow there either! 😉
A lovely set full of movement
I thought rather too much movement at the time!
I’ll bet – but your camera coped
Those tulips are something else. They are not at all like what one gets in mind at first mention, just those standard reds. These are lovely.
Those graceful flicks at the petal tips help.
They are beautiful!
Thank you
Dancing on the wind! Yes, that’s what they do, and I don’t know how you got them to hold still for these wonderful photos. I will not think of the next chapter in their story, but just enjoy my awe.
I didn’t! The camera did the best job of freezing it could. I’m glad you read these in the ‘wrong’ order. Cheerier that way.