Daily Home Renovation Tips

Last fall we wrote several article in this series on our selection and planting of various types of tulip bulbs in our front garden as part of it’s makeover. The links to those articles within this series are at the end of today’s article to refresh your memory of what we planted where.

Today we have to write about what to us is a true sign that winter is gone (except for the likely spring snow storm) and that spring has truly arrived.

In looking over our front garden today I notice for the first time the tops of several tulips in some, although not all, of the areas where the bulbs were planted last year.

We are really excited because this is the first spring that we will see the new additions to our garden as part of it’s continuing makeover, started last year with the garden plan.

OK, let me show you what has gotten us so excited.

First take a look at the picture of the east part of our front garden.

What you are looking for is the collection of dark red tops peaking out of the soil between the Pyramidal Yew on the right and the Fireglow Japanese Maple with the two Sedum Autumn Fire perennials on the left. 

Don’t see them? Here’s a closer look at the tops of the 30 or so Plasir tulip bulbs planted in this location, the dark red-ish brown tips in the top half of of the picture below:

Here is a picture of a batch of the tulips  in the middle part of the front garden. However, I can’t tell you exactly which type of tulips these might be because in this location we planted tulips from a package containing 4 different varieties; namely Ballerina, Elegant Lady, Claudia and Tres Chic Spring Tulips. However, there are a few of them over on the left:

Next are some of the Don Quichotte Spring Tulips just peaking out from their bed in the west side of the front garden:

 Hard to see all of the spiking tulips, I know.  Next time we will pictures from a few days later where you will really be able to see them, and more. 

Here are the links to the prior posts so you can see the pictures of what we planted last fall:

• Don Quichotte, Ballerina, Elegant Lady, Tres Chic and Claudia
• Jeanne d’Arc Crocus
• Menton

Tomorrow, we’ll see what a difference a mear 3 days makes.

To continue to the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 31.