This is the time of year when I pull into my driveway all smiley because the tulips are coming up.
Although, the other day, I pulled in and my daughter’s boyfriend was parked in the drive which distracted me from my tulips. Apparently he was mortified, while I tee-hee-hee’d. He couldn’t back his tiny car out of our enormous drive with me alongside him so I had to completely back out and turn into the street in front of my neighbor’s house so that he could get out. He should maybe bring her home more often — he can get more practice backing out, they can have lip-to-lip time, and I can avoid the carline — it’d be good for everyone, see?
Anyway, off lips to tulips:
Most of them aren’t open yet, but the white ones have been up and open about a week now. By the time we clear the brown and gray from the lawn, all the colors will have opened and they’ll be at the height of their blooms.
I love tulips so very much. I plant more every year. They are my favorite flower.
Stream of Consciousness Saturday — SoCS ‘lip’ is brought to you by LindaGHill
joeyfullystated 
after laughing at the lip-to-lip and backing out fun…
these three little sentences had such spring melody when I read them:
“I love tulips so very much. I plant more every year. They are my favorite flower.”
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Yeah, it’s like that. I feel melodic about tulips 🙂
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well it was beautiful to read –
and did me bring me back – have a little story from the 90s it reminded me of (but will be back in a few to share it – cos hey – sometimes the little “cheesy stories” are part of blogging fun
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Muy Bonita!!
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Gracias!
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Your tulips are gorgeous. They are a wonderful sign of spring.
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Thanks! They’re glad you think so, too 🙂
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Oooooo…those are SUPER pretty. Super duper pretty! I see why they’re your favorites.
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*nods emphatically*
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We just went trough 2 days of thundersnow, so no flowers here. Yours look nice though.
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Oh for pity sake. Bad winter in Wisconsin this year, which is, you know, sayin a lot!
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There’s something exciting about not yet opened flowers. Like wrapped presents. Beautiful tulips and a delightful post with the tee-hee-hee.
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I agree, what an artful way to compare it, JoAnna! 😀
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I love tulips! 🌷 Yours are so beautiful 😍
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Thanks so much 😀 Glad to share!
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Tulips are truly one of the most beautiful flowers, and I can’t grow them. The squirrels eat them all. 😦 So, thank you for sharing yours because they are truly lovely as is your attitude toward your daughter’s boy friend. 🙂
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Judy, I don’t know if I told you before, but the very dark purple tulips, Queen of the Night, the squirrels ate them all over time. They must taste delicious. The orange have also taken quite a hit! Now, the reds and pinks, they have only gotten a few, but to my knowledge, they haven’t eaten any white ones, and so, I continue to plant whites, but I don’t plant the purple or orange ones anymore.
I also feed my squirrels A LOT in the fall following the planting.
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You should visit OTTAWA in May if you love tulips because we have a tulip festival every year. Long story but in ww2 the city sheltered the Dutch royal family. After the war they sent the city thousands of bulbs and that’s how it started.
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I feel like I read about this! Ottowa in May. Roger that.
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I love tulips and yours are gorgeous. I could stream of conscious my day away writing about them. We can’t have them here because the squirrels eat the bulbs in the fall, but if I could I’d follow your idea and plant them everywhere.
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Thank you, Ally Bean! I am happy to share 🙂
I will repost what I wrote to Judy here:
The very dark purple tulips, Queen of the Night, the squirrels ate them all over time. They must taste delicious. The orange have also taken quite a hit! Now, the reds and pinks, they have only gotten a few, but to my knowledge, they haven’t eaten any white ones, and so, I continue to plant whites, but I don’t plant the purple or orange ones anymore.
I also feed my squirrels A LOT in the fall following the planting.
I don’t know if that helps, but alas, that is the way of it here.
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You are ahead of us with with the blooms, Joey. Hooray for the season.
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I love tulips as well. Sadly every one I plant dies…
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Well they’re supposed to die… and then freeze… and then bloom again… No? Not for you? 😦 I bet you have to have zone 1-4 tulips in Maine… I don’t know enough.
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Not for me. They just die, no blooming.
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This sad
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It is. I’m like a tulip curse…
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Lucky you, Joey! Mine are not up yet and I’ve been fighting with the deer who LOVE to eat my tulips. I pull out my secret weapon to keep them away, darn it! Your tulips are gorgeous! Too bad they don’t last long. Enjoy them while you have them, dear friend!! 🦋🦋🦋
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We don’t get many deer. We get more interstate 😛 I’ve seen one deer on my street in 6 years. Tulips are my favorites and while I’m sad they don’t live all summer, by the time they wither, there are other garden joys in bloom 😀
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We sort of live in the country, or at least we did until suburbia popped up all over the place. These deer have been pushed out of their natural habitat and so end up in MY gardens. And you are right. After the Tulips more flower delights are there to enjoy. 🌱🌱🌱
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Thank you for bringing spring to my day, Joey. Tulips and daffodils are happy flowers because they signify spring. I hope we start seeing them here by the end of the month.
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I hope you do, too! I know you had some bad weather the other day. My other Wisconsin dweller said he just had two days of thundersnow
We sometimes get snow on our tulips, but they do always arrive in April 😀 It is my pleasure to share them.
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From two lips to tulips you have it all. Beautiful blooms.
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😀
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You seem like a great mom. Kudos to you. Love the tulips and the two lips!
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😀 Thanks!
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I always liked tulips. Just talked to Mom, and she’s overrun with daffodils right now. She’s been digging them out and giving bulbs to people.
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I want some! 😀
I have that with lily of the valley. I’ve been digging them up and placing them on the side of the house, but eventually, I’ll have more than enough to share.
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Some of those bulb expand fast. Maybe there is a root monster theme for my next pirate book.
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OOOH! There ya go! Rhizomasaurus! LOL
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Good one.
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Oh, those are beautiful! I think lily-of-the-valley is my favorite flower, but I like tulips, too. Glad you have some to make you happy!
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Oh Marian, I have SO much lily of the valley, you could have feet of them and no one would even notice a bare spot. The last two years I’ve been moving the spread to the side of the house. I’ll be sure to take lotsa snaps for you 🙂
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I have ’em, too, I’m happy to say! Looking forward to your snappies!
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😀
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I love your tulips although they would be bent under the weight of all our snow today. 😦 My daffodils are NOT happy. And as for lip time, two lips are better than one, don’t you think? 🙂
janet
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Two lips are better than one! Four may be best 😛
This is the first year in the 6 we’ve lived here when it did not snow on my tulips. It could still, but previously, April the 12th was the last snow. I have a few damaged daffodils from 2015. They froze and since then those few don’t open
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I didn’t think you had a daughter old enough to date someone with a drivers’ license! Tulips are delightful but out here they don’t bloom for very long.
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My daughters: 24 is married and the other two are in high school 🙂
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Yessssss tulipssssss! I swear it’s just too damn hot down here for them. 😭😭
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It is. It truly is 😦
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I love tulips! I don’t have any, but I admire all the ones around town. I’ve heard that all of my trees have sprouted their leaves while I’ve been away. This makes me very happy!
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Oh that will be jussst riiiight for you to come home to 🙂
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I so agree that tulips are the bomb. Sadly here in s=So Cal they are difficult to winter in the fridge and then while I can get the greens the next year never the beautiful flowers. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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