FLOWERS ON FRIDAY: MANY MOODS OF TULIPS

Hello Readers – 

A tulips post has been on the “Blog-Wanna-Get-To” list –

Today is the day for that tulip post because Rogership (HERE) recently shared that NOW is the time to get tulip bulbs planted – in order to get spring blooms.

…. NOW is also the time to share my post: THE MANY MOODS OF TULIPS

Last Spring, these four posts showed TULIPS in all their glory:

1. Crytsal (here) shared a post called “Eating Up the Tulips” (which she meant soul-food)

 Crystal and her daughter, Tara, went to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm‘s 35th annual Tulip Festival. Check out the red tulip with the yellow – and her words: live your own life. 

 

2) Lisa (here) shared tulip varieties from a day trip to the Tulip Festival in New Jersey

Lisa’s post provided more support for why New Jersey is called the Garden State!

 

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3) Janet (here) brought us early spring tulips from Philadelphia

 East Coast ragged-edged tulips.

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4) Joey (here) ended one of her tulip posts with this magnificent masterpiece

And HERE, Joey wrote “I enjoy watching the tulips open and close. I admire them. I marvel at them. I downright stare at them. They are beautiful. I love tulips.”

 

The next six photos show a few more MOODS OF TULIPS

 

Tulips partying at night…

A little spent – whew – been up for a while now….

silk tulips – ROADTRIPPING IT

 

Ahhh… No Baggage – feeling open – with a lot to give – ready to chat – etc.

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wait… huh, what? — 

Tulip quiet time  – decompress –  regroup – get some sunshine… yeah – that’s it….

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 Thanks for viewing.

Now you know I could have kept linking bloggers with awesome tulip posts -(Like Cee, Woodland Gnome, etc.) and maybe could do a second tulip post later –

in the meantime….

 if you have any tulip posts….

PLEASE leave a link in the comments – so we can check out even more moods of tulips. 

Lastly….

Tidbits for Planting Tulip Bulbs

(from Gardenerdy HERE)

• As a perennial, tulips will bloom every year in spring. 
• Check which USDA hardiness zone – HERE
• Tulips are propagated through seeds, offsets, and bulbs.
• Bulbs are the most common and easiest way to grow tulips
• Bulbs should be planted in Fall – around September or early October – before the first frost sets in.
• Tulips will bloom in April or May – 
• Some blooms last a full month
• Choose healthy bulbs –  no fissures, and no signs of rot or fungus 
• Bulbs should feel firm, not soft or squishy.
• Plant tulip bulbs in a hole that is four or six inches deep in the soil
• Place the tulip bulbs pointed end up 
• Space them five to six inches apart and cover with soil. 
• Tulips also grow well in a pot – Mix the soil with compost, peat moss, or fertilizers
• Once planted, tulip bulbs require very little care until spring arrives.
• Tulips need lots of sunlight to bloom and to develop color
• Tulips also need you…. to appreciate them  – to  nurture them – and share their beauty

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