A thick layer of yellow pollen was covering everything yesterday, as the conifers in the woods all around us are flowering. There were literally clouds of it every time the wind stirred, but fortunately an overnight shower had settled it enough for me to pick a few tulips this morning for today’s vase.
In the centre this lovely orange one is flowering in The ‘Edge. (It may be Ballerina….?)
The pink one on the right is a new one – Mariette – and the paler pink one on the left was planted out from a pot a couple of years ago and the name is long forgotten. They have come back well, despite the excavation work carried out by mice in the winter!
This pale yellow one, also planted out from pots last year, has a slight orange tinge to the edges which makes me think of ice cream with raspberry sauce…. 😆 Some Pulsatilla seedheads, chocolatey Geranium phaeum and a lime green Euphorbia polychroma accompany it.
Somehow the day got away from me, so I am late posting my vase. But it was a good day with a visit to a garden centre and then some gardening later on. However, the highlight of the day was the discovery of vegan Babybel cheese. Swoon! 🤣
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for hosting ‘In a Vase on Monday’.
Happy gardening everyone!
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Vegan Babybel cheese! yum. I love the tulips in the butterfly vase, shows them off so nicely. I remember pine pollen! Ugh. Thank goodness for a cleansing shower.
The pine, spruce and fir are all flowering now, as well as the birch!
Oh yes, I forget about the pollen. Redwoods do the same, but relative to their massive size, are not as prolific with pollen as pines are. Ponderosa pines are not quite as massive, and are not as fully foliated so low down, but generate more pollen.
I think the spruce are the worst at the moment. (And the most numerous here too).
Love the butterfly vase! (And the tulips, of course!)
Thanks Chris!
Ugh, about the pollen! The butterfly vase is very nice and show off the tulips beautifully.
I would have loved to pick more tulips, but the weather put me off!
Simply beautiful!
Thank you!
Very pretty shades of pink tulips, Cathy. I’m surprised to see G. phaeum blooming already, mine is just sprouting leaves. Sounds like you are fired up with garden work, spring sets us free! 🙂
Yes, the Geranium phaeum seemed to appear from nowhere in our warm spell but we are back to cold and wet now!
Ugh, but at least the rain gives you a day or two to rest up! 🙂
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Lovely❣️ it’s so okay to get immersed in the blooming right now 😎
Absolutely! 🌷
The yellow tulip is gorgeous!
I like that one too! 😃
I love your Tulip display. It have been a day of high winds and pollen here, but that is nature for you.
Yes, there is always something… those still days with just the right amount of sun, clear blue skies and a light breeze are rare! LOL!
You have a nice selection of tulip and the yellow one is really interesting. We are ahead of you with pine pollen and ours is gone.
I am hoping our pollen will have gone by the time the weather clears up… it is wet at the moment which at least means the pollen is not flying around!
Such a unique vase…lovely tulips!
Thank you Donna!
They are, all three, lovely choices. I don’t think I’ve seen Mariette before, but I will definitely be on the lookout for it in the autumn 🙂
Mariette was from Farmer Gracy’s. Luckily they have warehouses in Holland and can send to the EU countries, unlike other UK seed and bulb suppliers!
That is such a great way of showing off your tulips, Cathy – these lily flowered ones are so elegant – and what an intriguing edge to your ice cream tulip! ps glad to hear you managed a nursery visit!
The garden centre was much better stocked this time, and already had lots of summer container plants in the greenhouses… much too early as it is down to freezing point most nights at the moment!
The tulips look gorgeous, the way you have arranged them in the butterfly vase. I especially love the first photo, with the tiny vase beside it – the combination makes a lovely photo. 🙂
Enjoy your cheese. I regard any new cheese “find” – vegan or otherwise – as a happy event. ❤
Thanks Joanne. The cheese didn’t last long (only five in a pack!) and I will have to make another trip to the shop that sells it really soon! 💕
All beautiful. I’m partial to flowers with tinted edges.
They are very charming. 😃
Oh, those are beautiful! And the containers are wonderful, too. The Tulips are beginning to bloom here, as well. Lovely time of year. ❤
It is a wonderful time and I have more tulips opening here too. 😃
Oh, my, that yellow one with the delicate edging is pure beauty! The tree pollen is just getting started here. The worst for us is the quaking aspens — last year, the white fluff covered the hillside and looked like snow! ACHOO!
And once again, I love your vase!
Thanks Kimberley! It has been raining since Monday so thankfully the pollen has settled. It has brought my garden work to a standstill though! (We can’t have everything I suppose!) 😜