One of my favorite flowers is tulips! These flowers are one of the first flowers I see in Spring, not only these are great looking flowers that come in various varieties they are also perennial, meaning that they will come back every year, though if you want them to stay as gorgeous as they were the first year you cannot just leave them in the ground.
The picture of red and white tulips above is one I took at the tulip festival in Mount Vernon, Washington. That is where I bought the tulips that I planted and took pictures of. So where you see a field of tulips you see the pictures I took at the tulip festival and the rest are the tulips that I planted and took pictures of at my house.
The tulip above is one of my favorites and is called Pink Impression and was introduced in 1979 which is only three years after I was born! I took this picture using my Canon 5D with a 200 millimeter lens.
I used to be into photography, but my specialty was portrait and fashion photography. I always liked taking pictures of people as I found it more challenging and therefore more interesting.
I guess tulips were a rare exception to that rule :) The tulip above is called Snowboard and was first introduced in 2007. This tulip blooms early in Spring and is a pleasure to look at.
Here we have a set of purple tulips called Negrita. It is a really nice looking and long lasting tulip which also blooms early in Spring. It was first introduced in 1970 which is years before I was born!
I like planting tulips of the same color together as a bush, because they make for a great accent in the garden.
In the image above you see two types of tulips: Ile de France red tulips in the background and I believe Pink Emperor tulips in the front.
The two tulips on the front right look like a couple to me :)
Above is a closer look at the two...
Here is how these tulips look together, you can see that some of the tulips on the left are later bloomers and are behind the others.
Of course it is difficult to compete with a field of tulips at the tulip festival in Skagit County, Washington. But when you plant tulips at home you don't have to drive anywhere and can enjoy your tulips any time of the day for days until they stop blooming
Interesting story, when I started dating my wife, I tried to invite her to my place while the tulips were still in bloom and I told her about it. She must have been thinking I am strange and she probably thought that I was trying to invite her to my place faster under the pretense of seeing the tulips :)
She never made it to the tulips that year as she was busy travelling and by the time she was back the tulips were done with blooming.
I also like yellow tulips, that is definitely not one of my wife's favorite colors for flowers, but I really like them:
These tulips are called Golden Emperor and were introduced in 1957 which is way before my time.
Here is a close up shot of these:
And here is a picture of my son taking some of his early steps in the field of tulips at the tulip festival many years ago! He is going to be twenty four this year...
Here are a few more shots of the tulips that I took:
and as a group:
Hopefully you have enjoyed looking at my pictures of tulips:
Here is a small collage I made out of tulip pictures:
Gardening is my other hobby besides Splinterlands.
Steps wise yesterday was a good day and I made it over eleven thousand steps.
All of the images you see in this post were taken by me.
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