Tulip thrills :)

I've been wanting to write this post for months!! After all the tulip season is somewhere in March - April. Well, as they say, laziness is the source of all troubles :-p :-D. Since the post is about tulips grown by my own hands in my garden, its is going to be more of a picture post than anything else. Consider yourself warned ;-).

Lets start off with the pink tulip evolution :-D.







I cannot describe the joy and the pride I felt when I actually saw these grow :).

Next are the peach tulips. There were 2 plants of these and they really were wonderful to see..










Just 1 or 2 days after I took this snap, 2 of these peach tulips were stolen!! I couldn't believe it. I mean, frankly you expect such things in India, but certainly not in the US!! They had neatly been cut off. I literally cursed and raved for one whole day. C'mon, I could have cut them myself if I really wanted to keep them in a vase :-p. Well, atleast hope they made somebody's boygriend/girlfriend happy :-p. Thankfully the "stealing" incident stopped at the peach tulips.

Then there were yellow :).










The above were the only ones where I actually could capture the evolution as such. But the beautiful tulip saga didn't end at that. There were other light pink tulips...








..., colourful combinations of tulips...







... and sets of streaked tulips.







Ultimately, when they were all in bloom, the rows looked like this:







Well, sadly all good things must come to an end and so did the tulips. They slowly faded away and later even had to bear the assault of a few neighbourhood children's cycle wheels :-\. But, never mind. I have retained the bulbs in the ground, so hopefully they'll come back next year and bring even more cheer :).