Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, the host of this lovely meme, has shared some beautiful tulips in her vase today. By coincidence I am joining her with some of my own tulips that have been such a show this spring.
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All of the tulips here originate from Holland (maybe not quite Amsterdam), but I must confess my little windmill on the photo below is from Norfolk!
The moment I thought of today’s title, that song came to mind… famously sung in the UK by Max Bygraves, but well-known in Germany too (as it was actually originally written in German!). Here is a fabulous German version of it from youtube (from 1961!) by the Dutch singer Mieke Telkamp…
She can roll her ‘r’s so well! 😉
I am not entirely sure of all the names, but the purple one is ‘Purple Dream’, the white one ‘Swan Wings’, the pink parrot tulip ‘Weber’s Parrot’, the three orange ones are ‘Princess Irene’, the creamy one with a yellow-green stripe is ‘Green Star’ and the yellow lily one is ‘West Point’, kindly identified by Christina last week. The rest are probably from the Harlequin mix from Peter Nyssen.
Have you got any tulips in your garden? Or do you find them a little brash?
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What a cheerful song about tulips. Of course I don’t understand the words but I get that it is about tulips. I love tulips. I have a few in my garden, some mixes, parrots, and some white ones. They have all stopped blooming now. I love their cheerful colors and they SCREAM spring to me. I remember that during my early school years we always had to draw and color tulips. Maybe that is why I like them so much.
I also used to love drawing them when I was little! I have planted more and more each year and am so pleased with the results. 🙂
Tulips and a song. Happy Monday!
🙂 Happy spring!
Oh the colors of spring! Simply scrumptious tulips, Cathy!
LOL! ‘Scrumptious’ is the perfect word Deb. Some of them do look good enough to eat! 😉
You know I’m always pleased to see tulips mine are all but finished now so doubly happy to see them. btw Tulips – brash???!!! Never!
😉 I remember in the seventies my Auntie went to the tulip fields in Holland and came back with piles of photos of red and yellow tulips. Now they WERE brash! LOL! There are so many beautiful ones now though. I am beginning to understand why people spent fortunes on them when they were first cultivated!
I wish I could grow tulips here. When I finally have my very own home and yard, tulips will definitely be present. They are so simply gorgeous and showy and you can’t ever be sad looking at a tulip.
That is a nice thought – they certainly do make me smile too! I do hope you have the right spot for some one day. 🙂
Hope there are still a few tulips around when I get to Amsterdam in a few weeks:^) Yours are beautiful…love the jumble of colors and shapes.
I was thinking of you when I wrote this post Marian, as you mentioned you were going in May. I hope you will share some photos afterwards! 🙂
Love your tulips…and love your singer. I have never heard her before. Quite a voice.
I hadn’t heard her before either, but I prefer this version to the English one sung by a man. 😉
They’re lovely and cheerful, Cathy. I can’t imagine thinking tulips brash. If they bloomed it my garden I’d call them a miracle! They don’t work even as pre-chilled annuals here – our high winds kill them off in bud if the bulbs even sprout.
Over the past few years I have discovered so many lovely ones and I do look forward to seeing them throughout the spring before the other plants and flowers take over. 🙂 If I lived in your climate I would defintely grow Freesias instead, Kris – hundreds of them! 😉
Tulips are classic. Fun to listen to this song – so springy!
It made me smile too Eliza! 😉
I’ve got tulips, of course, nothing brash ordinary about them though, is there?! Just glad we don’t have to sell our houses nowadays to be able to adorn our gardens. 😉 Have a great week, Cathy xx
I can understand why people spent so much on them, and nowadays there are so many more beautiful ones too. Have a sunny week Annette! 🙂
A vase with tulips is always a delight, thanks for cutting and sharing them! My garden is full of tulips, it seems that tulip mania got me!
I am glad I cut them for indoors as they last so well when cut fresh and they open up fully in the warmth too. 🙂 I think I have got tulip mania too Anca!
Tulips are definitely something to sing about. Yours are beautiful Cathy.
Thanks Susie. The garden is looking very colourful with them all flowering together!
Great idea to have a soundtrack for your vase – I’m nearly dancing here! I can’t ever feel that tulips are too brash, especially after a long cold winter. Lovely vase of happiness!
🙂 Yes, the bright colours after a drab winter are the main attraction I think. I love the fringed and parrot ones especially.
No, not brash, wonderfully vibrant and full of the joys of spring.
I am glad you also don’t think they are too brash Alison! Vibrant is a good word! 🙂
Lovely, thank you – I enjoyed that sing-along!
😉 Glad you enjoyed it.
Gorgeous tulips, gorgeous colours.
They certainly beat the little bunches sold in my supermarket! 😉
I can’t even imagine the idea of tulips being brash, Cathy. The colors are exceptional and I’m in love with them! The video was just delightful, too. I have tulip envy! 😀
😉 So glad you enjoyed the video and the pictures of my tulips Deb. I’m sure there will be a few more to come on my blog this spring!
Spring wouldn’t be spring without ‘Tulips from Amsterdam’.
You’re right. Thank goodness for Dutch bulb producers! 😉
Just lovely – perhaps I like brash, but I can’t imagine not loving tulips! They were one of the first cold-winter plants I fell in love with as a nine-year-old, just moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. I thought they were marvelous, and they were definitely the old classic reds and yellows… 😉 Though if I were growing them now, I think your Swan’s Wings would about top the list! So pretty!
I have always loved tulips too, and as a child I would always say they were my favourite flower! You have certainly experienced some different climates in your life Amy. Chicago and your current home must be so different from one another, especially in terms of gardening! 🙂
“When it’s spring again ….. I’ll sing again” especially if I had as such a colourful vase full of tulips Cathy. I remember the song well from my childhood along with ‘I saw a mouse …. a little mouse with clogs on, singing a song” which I’ve not heard for years. I’m taken with the fringing on ‘White Swan’ which is most aptly named. I like tulips (apart from the leaves) but don’t have much joy with them.
Oh Ann, you are the only other person I know who knows that song! It was my first ‘single’, along with ‘The Elephant March’, when we had our first record player! (My goodness, I am old!) The tune often goes through my mind, as our old wolfhound’s nickname was ‘mouse’. 🙂 … A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam, a windmill with mice in, it’s hardly surprising….. 😀
Nothing brash about your tulips, they are all delightful Cathy. As for the song, well that leaves a lot to be desired.
I agree! 😉
The tulips are beautiful. The song I can do without.
To be honest, me too! 😉
I think they’re gorgeous, but we just don’t get the cold winters here to support them. I’ve tried chilling them in the fridge for six weeks, but I still only get a few to grow. I will instead live vicariously through you. They are lovely!
🙂 Glad I can share them. They really fill the gap between early spring flowers and the start of summer. And with the cool weather in April they have lasted so well. Hopefully May will be warmer though! 😉
Our May started with a heat wave (low to mid 90’s F (33C). It’s hard when the temperatures jettison so quickly. I see that you’ve had a rain storm plus hail. Good grief, Cathy. It’s all so unpredictable.