Daily Home Renovation Tips

In Part 31, we showed the initial signs of the tulips we planted last fall.

Today, much more progress.

What fascinates me is how the different tulips even look different when they are just sprouting up from the ground; very different.

Below are the Don Quichotte tulips planted on the west side of the front garden. Notice how their initial stems appear in one standard shade of green. Also notice in the picture below ow the initial stems of the Don Quichotte tulips tend to grow straight up in the air.

Compare the above to the Plasir tulips which we planted on the east side. In this case, see how the Plasir tulip stems appear in both green and some dark red. Additionally, notice how the initial stems of this variety tend to grow more to the side vs very mostly straight up in the air, a significant difference from the Don Quichotte tulips pictured above. 

Nex, what about the middle of our front garden? If you recall, we planted two combination bags of 4 different tulip varieties, namely Ballerina, Elegant Lady, Claudia and Tres Chic.

What I don’t like about the above pictured tulip combination is that the initial stems are (A) not coming up at the same time and (B) are not consistent in appearance. This concerns me at this piont in that the groupings of tulips might not all flower at the same time which was my hope.; i.e. a nice large mass of colour and flowers vs a trickling with each of the tulips flowing several days between each variety.

As well, my expectation was that the tulips would be similar height. If they were to be similar height I would have expected them to basically grow at the same height constantly, which right now they are not.

Lastly, remember that I also planted Menton variety tulips in the small garden to the immediate right (east) of our front door. We haven’t seen these yet because the snow was the last to melt in this area of our property. 

Now in the above picture you can see the start of these pink and very tall tulips. We chose to plant the Menton variety here because they were the tallest variety of tulip bulbs we could find for sale in our area. Height is important for this side garden because it’s retaining wall is a good 4 to 6 inches higher than the garden bed itself. For the flowering tulips to be seen from the street, they need to be pretty tall.

To see how the tulips look one week later, simply select this link to Part 33.