Tulips

[HansV]

I'm in The Netherlands, after all...

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[stuck]

Nice

And as an added bonus that looks like sunshine on the tulips too!!

Ken
PS local tulips or Keukenhof tulips?

[HansV]

The tulips are local, about 50m (55 yards) from where I live.
It's been cool and rainy most of the past week, and it'll be cool and rainy most of the next week, but today warm air from Spain streamed northwards, and it's now (6:30 PM) a balmy 24.5°C (76°F).
The sky is a bit reddish from Sahara sand though.

[StuartR]

I love Spring

[GeoffW]

This is a big advantage to living in a cooler area - there's much more spring and autumn. While we have spring flowers and autumn colours down under, they are much more obvious in cooler parts of Australia- and even better in Europe and the cooler parts of North America.

[Graeme]

Nice tulips picture.

The tulips in our back garden are all out looking and looking good.

Graeme

[Graeme]

Here's some of ours:

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Yellow tulips behind the Tree Peony

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They all looked a little less dishevelled yesterday before the 40mph winds we had last night.

Graeme

[HansV]

Lovely!

[HansV]

It's spring, so the storks are on their nest. This one flew away just as I had put away my camera, so I didn't get a picture of it in flight.

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[ChrisGreaves]

Oh Goody!
I can join in this thread proudly with my head held high:-

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Chris

[HansV]

Uh... OK?

[GeoffW]

It's not spring here, so I'll offer an autumn flower from our garden.

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[HansV]

Gorgeous!

[ChrisGreaves]

Uh... OK?

Don't knock it! It is two weeks ahead of the tulips I planted at Kerry's house.
Jennifer is upset because she doesn't have tulips; I fended her off by saying that, like babies, they pop out at different times.

Now i have to sneak across the street late at night in -15c windchill conditions and plant some tulips in Jennifer's lot.
Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

It's not spring here, so I'll offer an autumn flower from our garden.

Geoff, we of the northern hemisphere consider this to be Spring time (which translates locally to snow flurries, freezing rain, wind gusts that match the wind-chill, and vice-versa, cloud, fog etc.) so as far as I am concerned your floral tribute IS a spring bloom.
Cheers, Chris

[DocAElstein]

My first yellow things of the season have arrived, finally. They almost did on a, yet again, all time record for warmest day ever in April, last week.
They didn’t quite make it as the temperature then went on and dipped a bit. Today they made the first appearance.
I threw these things in over 25 years ago. In the meantime that and the rest of the thin 40m strip at the front has gone through lots of different states and changes, and most now has finally settled down to become a simple grass strip. These things survived all including deep holes right next to them, so I decided they should stay, and that small bit has become part of an experimenting area.
Last week I put loads of sunflower seeds there, given to me by the neighbour, to take over , when these things characteristically don’t last long.

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Reading this thread, I will take a guess they might be Tulips?
I only ever knew them as the first early yellow things.



( It will be Lupin time soon, I think, or will be if it continues to be getting too hot too soon? )

Alan

[Graeme]

First glance at your images looks like a long thin garden Alan!

Graeme

[DocAElstein]

Hi Graeme,
It’s actually Part of what I call light-heartedly one of my " occupied safety zones ". This particular strip is between my fence which is on my boarder and the start of the pavement area which is owned by the local Town. The whole street and pavement was drastically widened and modernised a few decades ago, as it had been a piddly winding unimportant road leading to the previous East / West German Boarder. Our (my now) property was the very first house here and the boarder between my and the Town owned land was not so clearly defined, as it was/ is for all the neighblours houses that came much later, so they left a strip of different width just by me, and left it to itself. I keep it partly tidy but also deliberately do things deliberately there, like working, temporally storing things, parking my wheelbarrows full of plants in Summer.
We have a lot of annoying " Ordnungsamt" people
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_enforcement ,
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungsamt )
here, with nothing better to do then annoy me when some nosey neighbour reports me to them for some reason or another. So I "fight them" there - they moan about what they see immediately in front of them, I tidy it up a bit, and they go away happy, and so they don’t look a bit further over the fence, as they might otherwise do, and what I really don’t want, Lol.

I got the idea from an Israeli who I knew ages ago, who explained the logic to them illegally occupying areas.

Human’s are weird sometimes, but this works extremely effectively for me.

Alan