Flower of the month of May - Tulipa

Botanical Tulips vs. Hybrids



Tulips in bloom, what a joy!

Most of my tulips are botanical tulips I find them so very attractive, small and pretty, perhaps not as 'fancy' as the tall hybrid cultivars but they are just the way I like them. Another positive thing about the species tulips are that they are early, most of the hybridized are in bloom much later and then after they flowered I

THIS IS PETER !

© This post This is Peter! was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/This is Peter! это царь Петр - This is Czar Peter. (Czaar Peter)Tulipa greigii 'Czar Peter'. This gorgeous tulip is named after an emperor,Young Peter - wikipediaПётр Алексеéевич Ромáнов, Peter I the Great, Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov.Born in 1672 in Moscow Pyotr was the son