May
29
Tulip flowers in the rain
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What do tulip flowers do when it rains?
Blooming bulb on a rainy day
On a rainy day, tulips flowers close their colourful petals, so stamen and pistil inside the tulip flower stay dry.
It’s not that a tulip can take a walk to look for shelter 
Yet flowers are much more than seemingly motionless creatures!
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May
28
Light pink pionies in a bouquet
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It’s still May and I already cut some light pink pionies in a bouquet
Although it is warm these days: 19 degrees C when I wake up and 25 degrees C during the day, we are not quite enjoying our garden it as it keeps on raining every once in a while.
We do enjoy our patio as hubby yesterday kept himself amused making delicious Belgian Waffles there. Which is great as the fumes from his culinary skills made some of our neighbours popping by. Good idea as hubby always makes way too many waffles in stead of baking a few every once in a while
For those mentioning the above flowers that look like peonies aren’t pionies… well, hubby insist peonies should be written as pionies… no use to start discussing with a person who volunteers to bake Belgian waffles I find So if you want to know what do peonies look like: they look exactly as the pionies in the above picture!
When to plant peonies
Just to let you know that peonies aren’t spring flower bulbs and you need to plant them in September or early October. Let me write a complete peony care post the next time when I have some more time on my hands.
Meanwhile I think hubby has been drinking some port wine as he insists that peony care should be spelled peony care intstructions and for those who need to know what to plant with pionies, hubby’s answer is how predictable: port wine bottles are ideal to fence peonies growing zones …
All this because we want to enjoy a rainy day the most
Anyway, we took our rainy garden indoors by cutting some light pink pionies in a bouquet and high tea with waffles.
May
23
Tips on growing gladiolus
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We have been planting some gladioli today so let’s share my secret tips on growing gladiolus.
Yes, for those wanting to know when to plant gladiolus: you can still plant gladiolus these days like NOW!
In fact it all depends on your gladiolus flower bulbs: some gladioli flower after 75 days of planting, the late varieties will flower after 100 days: that’s 3 months and 10 days.
If you plant your gladiolus bulb corms today, these will flower the latest the 1st of September. How mathematical is that…
To have a continuous supply of gladiolus cut production, we keep on planting gladiolus bulbs every 7 to 14 days. Don’t you just love gladiolus arrangements in vases? Well, I surely do!
Gladiolus arrangement in the garden is pretty easy: they more or less grow straight so where-ever you plant one, you will get one gladiolus bulb plant. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
Gladiolus care is easy: once in the ground you can more or less forget about them: their flowers will remind you that you did a good planting job!
Caring for gladiolus
There is nothing easier than how to grow gladiolus flowers as far as I am concerned I love to plant bulbs when the weather is as nice as it is now in May.
- Gladiolus planting should happen on not too heavy nor to acid soil.
- Make sure the are in the sun and out of the wind or heavy rain.
- Make also sure to replant your gladioli on a different spot than last year. If that’s not practical, than remove some soil from one place of your garden to where you want your gladioli to grow again this year.
So far for how we do it, please leave a comment if you have more tips on growing gladiolus!
