Technical issues will keep this post brief as a mammoth Windows ‘update’ and ‘cleaning’ of my laptop yesterday evening would have kept me up way past my bedtime otherwise!
Perhaps inevitably, today’s vase contains tulips once again, although each week there are more competing contenders as spring races ahead. They clearly mean business today though, as they are in the vase that to me shouts “Tulips!”, and each year the combination feels like a special treat. It is a very ‘thin’ vase, ideal for supporting the tall stems of tulips, tulips from a pink mix that I could name if I rooted out the packaging or catalogue but haven’t got the time to do so.
When rambling through the woodland this morning, I noticed how tall the stems of the snakeshead fritillaries had grown, some as tall as 2 feet or 60cm, and it occurred to me that the stems and seedpods could be a useful addition to vases and posies, as they have indeed proved to be today. I wonder if their height is Nature’s way of increasing the chances of wider distribution of the seeds, sending them over and above neighbouring plants? Emphasising the pinkness and the poddiness of the not-yet-fully-open tulips and the seedpods is a (vintage?!) iPod in a remarkably similar shade of pink.
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