Tulips care

Tulips care

Mar

21

Growing tulips indoors

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If you don’t have a garden to grow tulip bulbs, you can settle with growing tulips indoors.

And if you have no clue about flowering bulbs indoors, then you can still enjoy what your favorite search engine thinks about tulips on the last day of winter:

growing tulips indoors

Growing tulips indoors on your favorite search engine yesterday!

I just wonder why they added this picture of tulips yesterday and not today. I would think the first day of spring is the ideal day to show a logo of spring flowering bulbs.

(Did you spot the 2 lady bugs? Talking about an eye of detail… I wonder what they will show the last day of spring and if they will continue showing other spring flowers in these coming 3 months of the spring season?

Anyway, this beginning of spring is ideal to go to your flower shop and buy yourself some tulips to grow indoors. Grow is a big word, flowering indoors would be better.

Please buy your tulips with the bulb on it: they present better, last longer and you can put them in your garden afterwards for more tulip flowers next year!

May

17

Crocus flower

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It feels like summer here, so I am ready to dig into my spring bulb pictures which I didn’t publish yet and start uploading them on pictures of tulips… So here comes for some other spring flowers!

crocus flower

Crocus flowers

Most crocus flowers are very early spring flower bulbs, sometimes you can even find a crocus in the snow :-) Normally a crocus will bloom long before Easter.

The grass like crocus leaves show a typical white line all along the center of the leaf. These days you can still get crocus flowers at your local florist, although I do prefer them in my garden before other plants start growing: let nature run its course :-)

The most common crocus is the Crocus sativus producing saffron! Unlike the "normal" crocus, saffron blooms in autumn. Now don’t start eating your spring crocuses at home nor in your garden, as they are poisonous!

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May

3

Tulip dragon at Keukenhof

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I have been living in Europe for ages now, but that doesn’t prevent me to love my Chinese roots and to get excited when China get’s in the news again for the Olympic games or its tulips… kind of :-)

tulip dragon keukenhof

A symbol of Chinese culture has been made authentic Dutch tulips : 24000 tulips were used to make this Chinese Tulip Dragon in Keukenhof in the Netherlands.

… I do prefer real dragons but just imagine: 24.000 tulips…

Of course the dragon, measuring 10 by 15 meter, stands for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that will start at 8-8-2008. That are 3 ‘8’s…

For those who still have no clue…an Olympic flag is flying next to the dragon, for good wishes for the first Summer Olympic Games in China ever.

For those that still don’t know what Keukenhof is all about: it’s the most popular spring attractions in the Netherlands, displaying six million blooming tulip and many, many other spring flower bulbs.

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