Category: Bulbs

First flowers

Hat tip to Saxton for encouraging me to get down on my knees, if not my belly.

The prize this year goes to a couple patches of Eranthis, which beat out the snowdrops this year.

first flowers

Willows count as flowers in my book, too.

first flowers

No flowers on the cyclamen yet, surprisingly.

first flowers

Some alternate takes …

first flowers

first flowers

first flowers

first flowers

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‘Broken’ tulips

I stopped by the greenhouses this afternoon for an AV emergency, and stopped to chat with one of our undergrads doing honors research on flower bulbs. He was excited to show me some ‘broken’ tulips — tulips infected by a virus which weakens the bulb but makes adds some pizazz to the blooms. The first two below I blogged about in their normal state here (if not identical varieties, they’re very close). So you can see the effect the virus has, making some fancy tulips even fancier..

broken bulb

broken bulb

This abnormal coloring is actually caused by mites, not virus.

broken bulb

broken bulb

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