Tulips arrive

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is going too fast! A bout of really warm weather has everything bursting out, and the first tulips have started; usually in a cold spring they come after the main daffodil show, but this year they're coming out at the same time. It's almost going too fast to really appreciate. I can't remember what the deep orange one is at the top of this post, but wow! what a stunner. The picture just above is of the Baroque Border. I've decided to be very pretentious and name my beds the way that large gardens and self-important gardeners do. The Baroque Border is called so, because it is the shape of a baroque volute, like the volutes on Santa Maria della Salute in Venice. I have a Georgian Border, because it is the shape of a Regency fanlight, and a Crinkum-Crankum Border because it wobbles. To say nothing of L'Orto, (the vegetable garden) and the Pear Rondel, the circle of plants around the bottom of the pear tree, and Et in Arcadia Ego, where the urn lives, a reference to Poussin's famous painting. I'll have to think of some other high-falutin' names - the Sunken Garden perhaps for the muddy bit that floods in winter, La Source for the garden tap, the Daffodil Lawn for the tiny lawn with only one daffodil in it. The Iris Garden, the Lily Garden, the Rose Garden, the Azalea Lawn all make it sound like a huge place instead of a tiny patch crammed indiscriminately with stuff.