The flower stall at the market looked positively spring like yesterday. Although the temperature was telling me it is January, the sun was shining and I could not resist picking up these beautiful pink tulips.
I love to arrange tulips simply in a glass jug with twigs or pussy willow to add height and some support to the flowers.
Left like this for a few days the flowers will continue to grow and twist towards the light. I appreciate the natural movement of the flowers in an arrangement like this rather than trying to constrain their desires.
These tulips will bring a touch of spring to my kitchen for most of this week.
As ever I cannot resist getting in close and photographing the details.
Finally, a shot with some boxes of pink ranunculus that I picked up in Marks & Spencer’s whilst I was out yesterday. The boxes are so pretty – I hope the flowers will live up their glamorous image! I am going to plant one box straight into the border in the greenhouse and the other into a couple of pots that can be moved outside if the weather is good when they flower.
I hope to see you again tomorrow when I will be back with flowers from my own garden arranged for In A Vase On Monday.
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Tulips are among my top three favorite flowers! Oh how I love them. I grew them beautifully up North, but alas, they are not so wonderful here in North Carolina. Last spring my, what should have been 24″ high, tulips were probably half that height. The ground just doesn’t get cold enough. But, yes, I can still go out and buy them! They are one of the best to arrange and watch unfold, I definitely agree.
It’s warm and sunny here today after our week of horridly cold weather. Love your pictures, as usual!
Thank you Libby – what a shame that you can’t grow tulips in North Carolina! I have been watching the terrible weather in the USA on the news – I am so glad it is getting better where you are. Here the temperatures are so high for the time of year that it is affecting the lower ski resorts in Europe – we had very little snow last week.
It is only in recent years that I have been able to appreciate tulips – perhaps because we grew up when there were only solitary red and yellow tulips grown in rows in a linear border. The first time I saw them en masse was in Warwick in the Lord Leycester Hospital gardens and I was captivated. So many beautiful colours, and I particularly like the little species ones which very thoughtfully can just left in the ground to multiply. In a vase tulips look just so simple and so perfect – and your photos are perfect too!
Thank you Cathy – I have been having a love affair with tulips for a few years now. When we first moved here 4 years ago the only spring flowers were snowdrops. I am gradually increasing my stocks of all kinds of bulbs, but especially tulips. You are right about the species ones – I must remember to order some in the summer.