Monday has arrived again and I haven’t posted since my vase last week. I have had a virus and not felt up to doing very much at all and on Wednesday last week the winds were so strong it was almost impossible to stand up. One of the canes helping to support the new Carrob broke in too leaving the tree blowing wildly around and so despite the cold and wind I had to help rescue it. At the same time I realised that some of the Anemones had been blown down; they were duly, picked and simply added to last Monday’s vase.
Last week’s vase with the addition of rescued Anemone (photographed on Friday 12th February
The Purissima have a buttery yellow throat
I’m hoping there will be enough Anemones soon for them to be in vase on their own.
In the greenhouse two other varieties of tulips were showing some colour, Purple Peony and Ballerina; more of the Purissima also opened including one with on petal half coloured orange; the line of the colour is so straight and defined it looks as if someone had painted it with a brush.
Tulips, Ballerina, Purple Peony and White Purrissima
I wonder what caused the petal to mutate to being half orange, any ideas anyone?
This week’s vase
Again this week I hand tied the tulips and placed them in a simple cylindrical glass vase.
With many thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the garden for hosting, challenging us and inspiring us to find flowers in our gardens or locally to pick and bring into the house to enjoy. Do visit Cathy or better still, what can you find in your garden today?
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
More lovely tulips Christina! I have no idea why they sometimes mutate, but the effect is very pretty. Hope you are feeling fitter now and can get out in the garden this coming week. We have had a couple of sunny days in between the February grey, but now snow is forecast! Roll on spring!
What’s so interesting about the mutation is the very straight line, I would have expected flaming like when there is a virus.
Beautiful bouquet that will hopefully contribute to a speedy recovery! Strong winds here too but at least the rain has ceased…for the time being.
We’ve had lots of rain in the last few days but not as much as forecast. It is very mild.
Hope you feel better soon Christina.. Spring is coming (thank goodness).
Thanks Jessica, I’m feeling better already as the post was written last Thursday.
Yes get well soon. Such lovely tulips and I enjoy them even when they’ve reached the fully open stage.
I love them fully open too!
Glad, as I see from previous comments, that you’re feeling better. The Anemones bring a nice pop of color to the Purissima tulips. I’m surprised the tulips have lasted so well. The second vase of tulips are beautiful too. Does the odd color block go all the way through the petal or is it only on the outside?
The orange colour is all the way through, it is so strange.
Interesting mutation Christina, the foliage looks very healthy, I wonder if its just a random tulip and wether it will do the same next year. I hope you feel better soon and that there is not too much damage in your garden, strong winds are worse than heavy rains and snow.
The garden seems to have escaped damage, an hour ago we had a hail storm that has covered the garden in white!
Oh Christina, sorry to hear that, I remember last time you had hail and the damage it did, hopefully this time was not so bad.
The only plants outside that are likely to have been damaged are peas and broad beans. But the hail was so hard that bit of the stone the house is built from rained down onto the terrace!
Christina I hope you are feeling better. What a delight to see all these spring tulips. I can’t get enough of them. And how interesting to see that mutated petal. Really stunning.
All the tulips are amazing, it is a joy to have them.
Sorry you have been under the weather Christina – and pleased that you didn’t feel you had to struggle to post on your blog while you were laid low. Your photographs today are stunning – such clarity! – and show your lovely tulips off to their best advantage. What an amazing mutation that one is! I didn’t plant any tulips in pots this time, but I don’t know why – I need to rectify that for next year.
The tulips are so lovely, I’m more keen than ever to experiment next year. They are all about to flower now and it would be better if they flowered over a slightly longer period.
We’ll have to jog each others memories next year – and in retrospect, I planted some outside that I intended to put in pots 😦
As a love of peonies and tulips I am going to have to look for that one you have. Very dramatic bouquet with those strong colors.
Glad you liked it Linda.
Love the beautiful bold colors and wonderful shapes, a lovely way to start Monday.
these vases are always a great way to start the week Charlie, you’re quite right.
I thought that tulips showing signs of mutation were the most sought after in the 17th century. Strong winds have been a feature of this winter. Purissima is one of my favourite tulips and it comes back year after year in my garden. Love the simplicity and colours of your vases today. Take care Christina.
Thanks for your good wishes Sarah, I’m sure I could have made my fortune in Holland in the 17th century and just as sure that this isn’t a repeatable mutation.
I love the tulips, the mutation adds to the appeal. I like the purple and salmon – I had a professor who called that a color jump!
It’s more a burnt orange than a summer and so definitely opposite colours on the colour wheel.
Tulips, my love!Thanks, Christina!
Thank you Anca
I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been down with a virus, Christina. I hope you – and the Carob tree – have come through the challenges of last week in better shape. The white and orange tulip is interesting and your vase, as usual, is lovely.
I’m feeling much better now, thanks Chris but it was a nasty virus. The Carob seems to be OK, but it was a timely reminder to check the stakes on the other new trees too.
Your tulips are so vivid…you have captured them so well.
Thank you Noelle.
Your vases look very cheerful, I hope they’ve made you feel better. A solid colour break in a single petal seems unusual, perhaps unlike streaks caused by a virus? If you find out please let us all know.
The straight line was what I found odd, I’ve add one or too tulips with virus and it is streaked or flamed; I doubt that I’ll ever find out why.
Beautiful! I like the mix with just the single purple and the vase with stones. This discussion and Cathy’s comment remind me that it’s time to think about ordering some bulbs. 🙂
There were a couple of Purple Peony in the vase but they didn’t show from the angle I took the photographs plus they show more now that they are open more.
Hope you’re feeling better soon Christine – your vases look lovely – my aenomes and tulips are nowhere near flowering – so hellebores are in my vase this week (and afternoon tea) 🙂 have a good week & I hope the wind dies down. Love bec xx
No weather lasts very long here except the heat of summer but there has been other interesting weather during the week.
🙂 some heat would be nice in the summer. It’s was blue skies and icy yesterday and hurling down with rain. Typical Manchester 😉
We can usually depend on the heat in summer, I sometimes wish it was cooler!
Lovely. Those Purissima have lots of life in them.
But I like the Exotic Emperor more.
Me too … they are a wonderful shape
The anemones are looking great in spite of their tumbling, and the vase together looks completely refreshed from last week. You know I love the bold colors of the anemones!
Sorry to hear you’ve been under the weather, and glad to hear you’re on the mend. Soon enough those bright cheery days of spring will drive off all the germs and bugs of winter!
I hope you have time for a walk about this week, I’m anxious to see how spring is progressing 🙂
I’ll try to show you later today what’s happening in the garden this week. Our weather has been very mixed. I share your love of the strong colours of the Anemones too Frank, there isn’t anything like them I think.
More beautiful tulips and lovely anemones too. They are stunning Christina. Glad to hear you are feeling better.
I’m not able to grow tulips because of the voles and squirrels in my garden, except for a few species tulips they don’t like, so I enjoy seeing all your lovely tulips, Christina. I guess I should try some in pots, and also some of the anemones. Your anemones are such pretty vibrant colors, and I like the black centers. It’s great you are feeling better, I’m sorry to hear of your strong winds and damaging hail. Once in Houston the hail was softball size and broke my sister’s windshield. I love Carob trees, I used to see them in California and liked to nibble the pods.
As you know, ‘Ballerina’ is a big favorite of mine. The first tulips I’ll see blooming is another orange beauty, ‘Early Harvest’.
Actually I realised that the orange tulip I showed isn’t Ballerina, that will be coming in a vase this week. This is Request when dies to a beautiful pale old gold colour quite unlike the colour is is to begin with.
Sorry you’ve been ill, me too, it’s the time of year. The tulips look lovely, as do the rescued anemones.