I may have missed the boat, but today I have planted my tulips for spring. There were various sets of advice about when to plant these bulbs, however I chose to go with Monty Don's advice which was anytime up to Christmas as long as it's before the frosts set in. Well, today is before Christmas so I got one right. I was inspired earlier in the year by the tulips in Joe Swift's Chelsea Garden, the orange Tulipa Ballerina. Their brash orange colours and delicate linear form really caught my eye and it is these I have planted. I moved my ugly plastic pot that I grow salad leaves in out to the front and sank half the bulbs into that, and the others are dotted around the front flowerbed.
So if luck is on my side, in the spring I should have Tulips, Alliums and Snowdrops meshing with survivors from last year - crocuses, bluebells, fritillaries and narcissus. Could be beautiful.
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