I promised you tulips today, but even I wasn’t expecting these ones, remnants from a previous planting in a pot now filled with Carex ‘Everillo’. I can remember buying some fiery tulips two or three years ago, but have no idea why I would have put them in that particular pot, as their bright and brash colouring would have necessitated a planting location near the bold borders. Nevertheless, there they were, pushing aside the grass and cocking a snook at the main borders filling up with foliage of plants that will in due course have pink and purple blooms, so I had no qualms in cutting short their exhibitionism.
Having the title in mind already, I sought out Nandina ‘Fire Power’ to emphasise
the fieriness of the tulips, but the plant proved to be too young and the stems too thick for this to be a sensible choice, so I cut fresh foliage from its cousin N ‘Obsessed’ as a tolerable alternative. Revisiting my childhood Britain’s miniature garden collection successfully brought to light the miniature hose reel I was sure would be one of the pieces in the collection, and which currently serves as a prop. Luckily, it is too small to put out the tulips’ fire!
As tulips increasingly appear in our UK gardens, they will no doubt play a big part in vases for the next few weeks. Wherever you are, and whatever you put in your vases, we would love to see them on IAVOM, so please share them by leaving links to and from this post.
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What a delightful Tulip, I love those fiery colours with the yellow and red, with petals a plenty. That Nandina is the perfect match, and I am not surprised that you props such as can be found amongst your miniature garden artefacts. Here is mu IAVOM: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-vase-on-monday-8th-april-2024.html
I think when I got them I was expecting more of a flame effect, but I certainly like the fullness of these – and will perhaps carefully extract them from the pot and see if I can establish them in one of the bold borders. There was a fourth flower too, but it is far more red than yellow
such an incredible colour!
Yes, it’s pretty amazing!
It’s a lovely colour, some kind of double/peony tulip? I find random ones popping up in pots and I’m convinced they change colour.
I can remember buying them trying to replicate ones I had seen on another blog, possibly yours, a few years back – they weren’t quite the same, but I like their doubleness and vibrancy. I would be quite happy to keep them going if possible, but in a different place!
Lovely and such a bright fun combo of colors. I miss having tulips which I only planted in my first garden where critters weren’t a problem. Now it is not having space that keeps me from planting them. But I can live vicariously through all of you wonderful bloggers. Still dealing with crazy weather, but the early blooms live on. A bit of a same type of vase as I had a couple of weeks ago since the blooms are limited. https://gardenseyeview.com/2024/04/08/in-a-vase-on-monday-eclipsing-spring/
The tulips here don’t see much in the way of damage other than the occasional hole from slug, or a head snapped off by a cat, so we are luck I suppose – sorry it is not worthwhile you growing them
More like limited space since the rental company took most of my garden away.
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These tulips certainly are “on fire”, Cathy! They are an incredibly bold colour, so I can imagine how surprised you were to find them amid pink and purple flowering plants. Your miniature hose reel may be needed!
The “Nandina” reference is interesting – I have a recently planted hedge of Nandina Nana, otherwise known as sacred bamboo, although it has absolutely no resemblance to bamboo when you look at them.
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Thanks Joanne, I do remember buying the tulips, and perhaps I just had the pot in a different place before. I have about 3 different nandinas, which form shrubs about a metre tall, so similar to your hedge, I imagine
They probably are similar to my Nandinas, Cathy – mine grow into quite bushy shrubs and probably to just short of a metre tall. During dry weather, the leaves turn red, so they are interesting plants to have in the garden.
Yes, nicely bushy shrubs here, too, but it is the new foliage that starts off red in some varieties
Wow! Those tulips are certainly crying for attention Cathy but perhaps wanted to be the star of the show a bit too much. I think that you took the wisest course of action 😂 They can still have their moment. I love the little hose reel and do wish that I had held on to my childhood miniature garden. My vase is here : https://greentapestry.blogspot.com/2024/04/iavom-here-today-gone-tomorrow.html
Did you look at the link for the garden, Anna? It showed the whole range and made me realise how many pieces I had, although sadly they have not all survived my own children and their friends playing with it. My Mum has the lead version…
Wow, indeed. I love the Nandina foliage with the tulips and what a great color. Another Brit word or words ‘cocking a snook’? Snook’ is a fish here. I have to look that one up. Here is my vase https://theshrubqueen.com/2024/04/08/in-a-vase-on-monday-hip-heirloom-hippeastrum/
Cocking a snook means ‘to do something intentionally to show you have no respect for someone or something’ 😉 When I checked the actual ‘meaning’ of the expression, there was reference to ‘snook’ as a fish too, something I have not heard of before, so I suspect that is very much US!
Delightful. Could squirrels have moved the bulbs there? They cause no end of hijinks here.
Hi Cynthia, we do get squirrels, but I can be fairly sure I put them in the pot myself and probably just moved the pot from a position beside the bold borders and forgot the tulips had been in it
Orange is not my go to color but these are beautiful. Sadly my Black Hero tulips must have gotten bit. All of the tips looked burned and dead..would have been pretty. I also love ” small”..the little garden hose is really cute.
Curiously, I hadn’t thought of these as ‘orange’, Beverly, but yellow flushed with red – yet I can see that overall they definitely do look orange!!
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How wonderful to have a tulip like that and better yet that it returns for you! The fancier tulips (like yours) seldom even bloom once here when the bulbs are first kept in the refrigerator for the requisite period to convince them they’ve gone through winter. Only the species tulips, Tulipa clusiana, are reliable. But I’m not complaining as there’s plenty going on in my garden at the moment: https://krispgarden.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-vase-on-monday-spring-spectacle.html
Thanks, as always, for hosting, Cathy.
Most tulips are not reliable here either, Kris, except for the species ones, but random ones occasionally do – and the lovely dark parrot ‘Victoria’s Secret’ that I had been building up numbers of until it seemed to stop being available
A very pretty double tulip, Cathy, and charming prop. I’m still getting the hang of props, I’m not so clever that way, I guess. 😉
Here’s my vase today: https://wp.me/p3O3z4-3d5
Props are in no way obligatory, Eliza, but can add another dimension and generate interesting conversations
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A gorgeous tulip Cathy, and lucky to have been in the ‘wrong place’ or it may not have been picked! I love your little prop too. You really do seem to have a prop for everything! 😃I rarely manage to come up with one,but must try harder!
My vase today also contains a tulip – not as fiery as yours but very cheerful. Thanks as always!
The fact that they have returned strongly and are definitely not just from last year says something too – I will definitely try and keep them going, but elsewhere!
Sweet Brown would approve!
Sweet Brown? One of your friends?
Sweet Brown is famous for her reaction to fire.
Someone made an ‘autotune remix’ of it, which some might consider to be in poor taste.
Excuse my ignorance, Tony!
Perhaps, for ‘this’, ignorance is justifiable. (Although, I still find it to be funny.)
I love your fiery and very full tulips, Cathy! I hope they can find a more appropriate spot for all that brilliance as it sounds like they may be a bit perennial. And I love your hose reel prop as well. I’m looking at the linked site and admiring the thought and design that went into such sets, not to mention the excitement and learning they must have brought. I would have had such fun as a child with a set like that, but I’ve never seen anything like it.
My own vase today is rather fiery as well, but with entirely different flowers: Exciting Times
It was during the 60s that I acquired all my Britain’s pieces, and they would have gone out of production some time in the 70s – I imagine the teeny pieces would be considered a hazard for small children!
Oh, those are indeed on fire! They’re stunning! The foliage, vase, and prop are perfect, too. 🙂