Tulips care

Tulips care

Dec

19

White tulip

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One of my little nieces is going to marry the 21st of January 2008, so of course I would love to see some white tulips, yet: it’s up to the bride to make the choice of the flower…

white tulipWhite tulips are ideal flowers to make a white wedding flower bouquet. Bride in white, white tulips… easy yet if you want to make your wedding special, make your personal wedding bouquet!

How to make a personal wedding bouquet?

When we say personal in a wedding bouquet, we talk about the bride, in our case my little nice…

  • First things first: make sure you know your wife’s – the bride’s favorite flowers!
  • Then find out if the flowers are available: tulips for instance are quite seasonal.
  • Work with a color scheme.
  • Look for wedding bouquet ideas on the Internet or in bridal magazines.
  • Make your wedding bouquet as close to the wedding day as possible: keep the wedding bouquet cool and moist so it remains fresh!
  • If you use tulips in a wedding bouquet, you are spared from bloody thorns…

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Dec

18

Allium Karataviense

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allium karataviense

Allium karataviense: Tulip like leaves…

The next Onion flower on my list of Allium Flowers is my second best favorite: Allium Karataviense or Turkestan Onion. This onion flower is blooming in June, so that means it is blooming now in Australia because it’s almost summer there.

It’s only 20 cm (about 8 inch) high and especially the blue-green leaves remind me from time to time to leaves of tulips. In our local florist shop, it is sold as Ivory Queen Cultivar. The plant and flowers look lovely in your garden when you surround them with stones.

I love to grow mine in a pot in full sun and throw some big pebbles on the top. It’s cute to see this little plant attracting bees and butterflies.

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Dec

14

Allium Sativum

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allium sativumAllium sativum sounds so intelligent, but we are talking garlic here :-)

Like all bulbs, allium sativum is easy to grow. Especially in winter indoors. Outdoors they can be planted already in February. If you are serious to have your own garlic bulbs to cultivate garlic bulbs, then go to your florist and buy garlic bulbs for that purpose now!

If you are like me and just love to add the green garlic leaves in your salad then buy the cheapest garlic you can find at the grocery shop, put them just under the soil in a flower pot and a few days later you have fresh produce of allium sativum leaves!

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