It’s been a great year for tulips in the garden.
I re-subscribed to a magazine and got some Sarah Raven bulbs as a freebie.
And they have been beautiful – big, blowsy flowers – interesting colours and shapes. Apricot Beauty was the first to fully flower last week.
It hurt A LOT to cut three of the nine stems to bring in and paint.
But here they are immortalised 🙂
© Claire Leggett Apricot Beauty
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May 6, 2014 at 8:10 pm
jenny
stunning!x
May 6, 2014 at 8:20 pm
Ollie
It’s a beauty
May 6, 2014 at 8:26 pm
Abs
Definitely worth the pain of cutting. Plant more this year for next? MAybe your pain will be less then!
May 7, 2014 at 6:52 pm
anne
Love them! Our spring has been very, very slow and our new garden has so many fewer flowers than our old one, but there are tulips that I’ve been stalking, waiting for flowers. Soon.
May 9, 2014 at 8:15 am
Helen Philipps
Beautiful painting! No need to have tulip cutting guilt when you immortalise them like this!
Helen xxx
May 10, 2014 at 3:28 am
sharon | the teacup incident
Absolutely gorgeous! Now you can enjoy them all year round.