More April showers and plenty of sunny intervals are making this such a glorious spring!
Tulips are flowering all over now.
The red tulips at the top of the rockery are some of my favourites: Tulipa “Eye Catcher”. Here they are a little closer up…
And even closer…
This patch of Tulipa “Eye Catcher” has grown since last year. And they always stand up to the weather very well.
What is catching your eye this week?
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Lovely!!
Aren’t they a wonderful vibrant colour! Thanks for visiting Arthur. 😀
What a glorious red, I’ll have to look out for that one!
I love the petal shape too, and the green veins that show up with the light behind them. 😀
My Eye Catcher this week is a pottered egg – filled with small yellow daffodils outside my window ~ Easter surprise from my mom.
Aah, how lovely. 😀
Wow, thats a vibrant tulip, the petal shape seems quite unusual, its nice and tall too.
And it stands firm and doesn’t flop, even in hot weather. I’m very pleased with this one!
Ohhh! Love this shot of Tuesday at Two. Everything looks wonderful! I see it looks as if you have some aubretia in bloom too and those tulips are gorgeous. I love the scalloped/fringed edge and color. I need to find a good spot for RED tulips.
The aubretia has been better than ever this year, which has saved it, as I was considering pulling lots up! This is a lovely pure red tulip without any orange in it, which I really like.
The color and the shape really do catch the eye…. also all the green that’s appeared in the trees and through the garden, your rain has done well for you!
We have been saying daily “Ooh, look how green it’s getting!”. The surrounding wooded hillsides are a picture! I have never known it to be this green in April before. We usually find it hard to find shade even in early May!
Your tulips are beautiful, catching the eye with their vibrant colour.
Thanks Pauline. The parrot tulips next to them should open today, and they are lovely too!
Beautiful bright tulips Cathy! Looks like all of your trees have full leaves now, I believe your spring is ahead of ours 🙂
Still three weeks ahead of a “normal” year Michael… Our mixed woodlands are slowly turning green too – just the beech, sycamores, ash and oak to come into leaf now.
Tarragon–it went from nothing to a foot tall in just a week! (In a cold frame, mind.) Must be spring at last!!!
LOL! I must check on my Tarragon now, but my sweet peas are doing the same!
Cathy, your red tulips are true eye catchers as the name says….so beautiful and cheerful blossoms!
Red is such a happy colour, isn’t it! Have a nice day Elisabeth!
Another “Eye Catcher” in this wonderful sunny afternoon was…a swallow-tail fluttering across our meadow!!!
Wonderful! Hope he visits me too!
Well, it certainly catches my eye! Wow, is it a tulipa linifolia? Lots of things are catching my eyes at present, especially my Banks rose on the house wall.
Hi Annette. It’s a Viridiflora tulip. I bet those roses look lovely!
Beautfiul red tulips. I admire the colors and textures of your rockery–so successful. Peaceful too.
Thank you Susie. It is peaceful out there, except for the birds singing their heads off! 😀
Love those tulips… another one to add to the bulb shopping list for later this year!
I’ve started a list too Sarah! 😀
I love the way those tulips inject a vivid accent into your border Cathy. I’ve had some suddenly appear in my front garden, some cleverly surrounded by forget-me-nots, they get to stay.
That’s a nice surprise for you Janet! Quite a few of my bulbs have either moved or disappeared, but a couple of years ago I suddenly gained some mystery Iris reticulata, which prompted me to plant some more!
I love the red tulips, Cathy. I don’t often see tulips! Occasionally someone is bold enough to plant them around “here” and they make such a splash of color. I have grown them, but they last but a day or two in our very warm spring weather. I will simply enjoy yours with you. They are wonderful. 🙂
I’m so glad you are enjoying my tulips too Debra! 😀 I did a round up of some a couple of years ago, so if you want to see more, look here:
Have a wonderful weekend!