Tulips

[jinman]

I know it's not much, but this is the first bed of tulips I have ever grown. Many of them are still just sprouting despite the fact that we carefully planted them all at the same depth. Anyhow, they are pretty and signal a certain change to spring. My deer netting fence makes sure they are preserved for us and not a meal for some hungry doe.:thumbsup:

 

[Western]

I know it's not much, but this is the first bed of tulips I have ever grown. Many of them are still just sprouting despite the fact that we carefully planted them all at the same depth. Anyhow, they are pretty and signal a certain change to spring. My deer netting fence makes sure they are preserved for us and not a meal for some hungry doe.:thumbsup:

Nice Tulips Jim! I have bad luck growing them for some reason. Your photo may inspire me to give them another go.

Love the rocks too, where did you get them? off your place??

Also, you must have short deer, or mine are just more determined!:laughing::laughing: Every once and a while they'll get in the dog pen, don't know why. Greener on the other side I guess.

 

[jinman]

Also, you must have short deer, or mine are just more determined!:laughing::laughing: Every once and a while they'll get in the dog pen, don't know why. Greener on the other side I guess.

Ha! Dennis, you make me feel good. The netting is drawn over the top of the bed. It's mesh guards from the sides and top. You can't see it very well and that is exactly why we use it. It doesn't take away from the pretty flowers.

Yep, the rocks are just random rocks I gathered up to define this flowerbed. They are not very consistent, but at least they define the space. Actually, there was some wild blue sage growning in this spot and I surrounded it with the rocks so I would not mow it down. After two years, the sage didn't come back and I tilled the bed up and planted a wildflower and zinnia mix. Last December, I added six bags of cotton burr compost and tilled it in good before planting the tulips. When the tulips go, I'll lightly rake the top of the soil and sew zinnias. I just like having this little bed of flowers up near the gravel road. I hope the neighbors enjoy it as they drive by. I know my mail carrier does because I saw her taking pictures of the flowers last year when they were surrounded by bluebonnets. This year I am watering the area so I'll have some bluebonnets, but they are not going to be good because our drought has been too severe.

 

[NSBound]

Nice looking tulip bed, Jim. :thumbsup: My tulips have barely emerged from the soil. In fact, they were up an inch or so, then it got cold again and they pulled back down into the earth. Just the tips are showing now. We're still below freezing in the daytime for the next week or so, so you're waaaaay ahead of us!

 

[Western]

Ha! Dennis, you make me feel good. The netting is drawn over the top of the bed. It's mesh guards from the sides and top. You can't see it very well and that is exactly why we use it. It doesn't take away from the pretty flowers.

Your right, in the photo you can't see the net on top!!

Jim, I think your the 1st person to have a "Deer Trampoline"

I prefer the native rocks. On our place we would like to use allot of rock, but I shy from the standard Austin type stuff, it is everywhere. We try to get them from the creek bed as long as we don't get to much at a time since we have erosion problems.

10-4 on the Bluebonnets! they sure are behind this year, huge lack of rain and probably habitat too, I know the KR Blue stem is getting pretty invasive for Bluebonnets. I've tried planting seed with no luck also.

 

[jinman]

10-4 on the Bluebonnets! they sure are behind this year, huge lack of rain and probably habitat too, I know the KR Blue stem is getting pretty invasive for Bluebonnets. I've tried planting seed with no luck also.

Dennis, to get my bluebonnets to grow and bloom this year, I've been watering the whole area (1/4 acre) with impulse sprinklers and soaker hoses. That is just wrong!:ashamed: Unfortunately, we are having the driest March ever for as long as records have been kept. It's water my wildflowers or do without this year. While the midwest is getting flooded, we seem to be in the grips of La Nina. A couple of years ago, I scooped up bluebonnet plants, seeds, roots, and all with my loader and spread them over this 1/4 acre. Last year it was beautiful. I actually had people not whizzing by, but slowing down on the dusty county road to look at my bluebonnets.

 

[WayneB]

Jim we still have snow-up's here will be another three weeks or so before we will see anything coming up I fear.

Nice pic though....

 

[Mickey_Fx]

Nice stand of Tulips Jim. Not exactly the kinds of flowers I think of when thinking of Tx.

The ease of which one can grow flowers varies greatly with locale. Here in the PNW (West of the Cascades) flowers and all thing organic grow with ease . Down around Salem Or. there are a number of flower farms with a good percentage being the largest in the nation for the kind of flowers that farm grows.

Hope yuo can keep the critters away and the Tulips come back year after year.

 

[EddieWalker]

I was watching a show about Tulips in Holland and some of what goes into the planning of their gardens. They said that for the most impact, to not mix your colors. Plant the entire bed in one color. Then if you have room, do another bed in another color.

Eddie

 

[dcyrilc]

I was watching a show about Tulips in Holland and some of what goes into the planning of their gardens. They said that for the most impact, to not mix your colors. Plant the entire bed in one color. Then if you have room, do another bed in another color.

Eddie

You mean something like this?