Tiptoe Through the Tulips ~ Monday Morning Blooms

Welcome to Monday Morning Blooms.

Come along with me and tiptoe through some tulips.

My garden loving heart looks with joyful anticipation to the first Mondays of each month when my friends Pam, Lidy, and Mary share bountiful inspiration for living with flowers through posts for

Monday Morning Blooms.

I'm delighted to join as a guest today where our theme is 

Tulips and Other Bulbs

Tulips are always a favorite garden 

delight for me and the bees.

I can spend hours each day observing the bees as they fly among the tulips and other flowers that might be in bloom in my garden.

SKAGIT VALLEY TULIP FESTIVAL

Did you know there is a major Tulip Festival in Washington State?

I had the privilege of attending in the spring of 2024.

The festival is truly an amazing experience.  

We only visited Roozen Gaarde, 

but there are three more along the route to enjoy.  

If you are in the area or can arrange a trip to Skagit Valley, WA, 

I highly recommend a visit for this spring festival.

If you visit my home in the spring, you will

notice that tulips and bunnies are abundant.

This is my entry with fresh tulips 

and vintage German bunnies.

I always find a beautiful tulip assortment at Trader Joe's.

I'm a weekly shopper at TJ's because I like to shop their 

great selection of fresh flowers at affordable prices.

These are peony tulips 

and are some of my very favorites.
You can see how they resemble peonies with

their double petal blooms and a touch of fragrance.

Trader Joe's sells them in bundles and recommends trimming the stems while they are still in the sleeve, and to leave them in the sleeve to drink water for 2-4 hours before removing them to be arranged.

I set a Hop Into Spring table for our 

Spring Tablescape Blog Hop in February.

You can see the post here.

Though I left the table set for Easter, 

I needed to replace the flowers.

The yellow and orange 

peony tulips were a nice addition.

A silver tray with bunnies and a carrot pitcher filled with more of the orange and yellow tulips sits on the dining room Welsh dresser.  

I placed an egg painted with tulips 

under a cloche as a nod to our tulip theme.

Springtime Pleasures 

This table from 2023 can be seen here.

An historical way to display tulips is within a tulipiere.

Original to the Netherlands in the 1600s, this style of container was originally designed to display and grow individual bulbs such that a single bloom would grow from the spouts.  This tulipiere was designed and created by MacKenzie-Childs in Auror, NY some years ago.  Needless to say, it is a favorite piece within my MKC collection.

Here it is filled with yellow daffodils.

I read that pink or purple tulips symbolize missing someone.

My heart aches with immense loneliness for Monnie.  

Our sunroom is the perfect spot for growing plants, 

so I planted a few of my MKC pots with potted tulips.

I found a pair of pink tulip shaped cache pots at Michael's on clearance, and took them home for more planted tulips.  

These potted tulips are the 

common single red Tulipa tulips.

I purchased these cut tulips at Whole Foods.

 They are a double version of the 

Queen of Night tulip called Black Hero tulips.  

The deep purple color almost looks black as they age.

 The MKC tulip decor chowder bowl has a flower frog lid.  

I have a mix of amaryllis bulbs in one of my front gardens.  

There are other plants growing here, but this is where most of my Christmas amaryllis bulbs land after they have bloomed out.

By spring they often reproduce more blooms

 and continue to bloom year after year.

 Little care is needed.

Inca Star amaryllis are double white, 

star-shaped blooms brushed with red.  

They have strong upright stems and last for a long time.

One of my favorites is the double white with multiple blooms.  

Austin is in USDA Zone 9a, which accommodates growing 

amaryllis permanently in ground as perennial bulbs.

I typically refresh my terrace containers with potted 

blooming bulbs, also available at Trader Joe's.

Muscari and daffodils don't do well for me in the ground,

so I enjoy these bloomers in containers seasonally.

I enjoy looking out to the mix of spring colors.

Want to join me for a cup of tea 

among the spring blooms.

Help yourself to a scone and sweet treat.

We'll be like a butterfly 

sipping nectar from flowers.

For future reference, these are 

excellent books on bulbs.

If you are interested in learning about different types of tulips,  

Petal Talk offers an excellent inforgraphic guide below.  

Petal Talk Guide to Different Types of Tulips

Thanks for joining us today.  Hop over and enjoy the beauty

that Lidy, Pam, and Mary share at the links below.

Pam @ Everyday Living

Lidy @ French Garden House

Mary @ Home is Where the Boat Is

Happy Spring!

Thank for the visit!