I love to have fresh flowers in the house. It's almost the first thing I do if I have been away - find something in the garden to put in a vase for the middle of the dining table. It looks naked without. Of all the cut flowers, either from the garden or shop bought, tulips are the only ones which grow old with grace, their stems elongating as the days go by. They move around, standing bolt upright overnight, and need a little rearranging in the morning to make them easier on the eye. And then the long stems twist and turn in their final days, as the petals fade in colour. I have grown some pretty spectacular tulips in flowerpots this year. They are lasting well, with the cool temperatures we have had so far, but I notice that they are now just beginning to fade. But they are doing it beautifully!
One day later. I am on a bit of a roll now, with dying tulips. The ones in the garden are changing, slowly, each day. The petals are contracting and rolling in on themselves.
But two in water, in the kitchen, have desiccated beautifully! The first one is the same as the cerise tulips above. High winds snapped a flower head off and it has been sitting in water, on the dining table, for a couple of weeks.
This single tulip morphed into a graceful ballerina.
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