Tulips are here at last!
Yes my green-fingered friends the graceful tulip (Tulipa)is here at last. I consider it an elegant flower because it looks just like an elegant woman and there are lots of those about at any time of the day or night.Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. Its specias are native to southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia Iran (where the flower is suggested on the nation's flag) from east to northeast of China and Japan. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes Kazakhstan.
They are perennial bulbous plants growing to 10–70 centimetres (4–27 in) tall, with a small number of strap-shaped, waxy-textured, usually glaucous green leaves and large flowers with six petals. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds.
My mother God be good to her planted a lot of tulips in the garden when she came to live with my father. Those same tulip bulbs she planted still flower after some forty years.
posted by Thomas @ 11:30 pm
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