Published Sunday, May 15, 2011, OK personal/derivative use; link www.lovethatimage.com.
Garden Bloom Day for May
There’s a garden meme called Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, and each month on the fifteenth people post what’s blooming in their garden that day. It’s quite a show. Some posts give me such spring-weather envy I cannot tell you. We are having serious warm-weather delay in Seattle, with the coldest April on record and heading that way for May, too. But occasionally there are dry spells, and if it hits 60 degrees F we are so happy!
This large Blushing Lady tulip didn’t bloom at all last year and I thought she was dead, but she sent up two (out of 6 bulbs) flowers after taking the year off and I do love this tulip. I’ve learned that you mustn’t plant things that need watering over them for the summer, because it causes the bulbs to rot. So much for that garden plan. I’ll have to find a spot that I don’t want to plant in the summer for next year, and plant new tulips there.
Behind the tulip are rust-colored wallflowers and to the left are red rhododendrons.
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Love the composition!
Your garden looks like a beautiful place. 🙂
she’s beautiful!!
Beautiful close-up photo.
Thanks for visiting and for participating in the TF.
What an interesting and beautiful combination! The pink and white against the reds and orange…very nice! Happy GBBD Day!
Splendid! Tulips take too much preparation here (chilling) and then act as annuals, so I gave up. I’m always glad to see them in someone else’s garden.
Such a delicate Pink n white! Wow.
What a stunning photograph! Happy GBBD!
Marvelous work!
Such intense reds – very nice. Happy GBBD!
Pretty tulip. 🙂 Hope to see you in my mellow yellow Monday post in the link of my name.
Lovely blush tulip macro!
Great color, excellent composition. Well done. Happy RT.
All shades of red in this photo–and such a luscious-looking garden!
DID SOMEONE MENTION SCARLET?
Did someone mention scarlet
Or was it red I heard?
Perhaps it was a varlet
Or a vermilion bird
That shouted out the color
That’s dearest to my heart.
(It makes me feel much duller
If red is not a part.)
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Just a Spot of Red
nice flowers…pls visit My Ruby Tuesday
Beautiful composition…..and it made your capture an awesome one. This is one gorgeous tulip in macro. You did a fine job. Stunning.
I grow Blushing Lady tulips around a ground level Tina crab apple… they bloom at the same time most years and frequently the tulips reach up through the flowering branches of the crab for a really lovely show. This year the tulips are blooming earlier than the crab so I’ll miss the combination… you’re rhodie is quite spectacular! Larry
This is truly beautiful Sara, and I love how you have composed it.
How lovely : ) I just love the flowers of spring!
Everything is so so so pretty! i host a garden party on Thursday’s & would love to have you join the party! oxox, tracie
That pretty tulip is a long way from being dead. It is so very pretty in pink.
The Blushing Lady made quite a come back, that is a gorgeous bloom.
Are those roadies in the backround? Tulip is lovely. I like the 15th of the month idea, I may post.
All of the rhododendron we have here are purple…I have never seen red ones. These are gorgeous. What a lovely shot. Beautiful spot.