These I think are the last of the fantastic and long running show that the tulips have produced this year. Whether they are last because they are a late flowering tulip or because they are buried more deeply in the pot I don’t know, but it’s a lovely finale.
I made my vase last week, photographed the flowers, but ran out of time to post until now. The first of the California Poppies and the last of the daffodils meet with perennial Stock, Freesias, Dutch Iris, and the Black Diamond Tulips, still going. The leaves of purple sage were growing over a nearby rose so they made a nice addition of purple-green.
In amongst all of these beautiful colours a simple branch of perennial stock is adding a deep rich scent to the already intense scent of freesias, narcissi, and wallflowers.
Absent Gardener 