Tulips

One of the last 'urgent/important' jobs for us this autumn has been getting some tulips planted. We ordered 256 mixed 'perennial' tulips, to go into the herb garden. Technically, all tulips are perennials, as bulbs, but in the UK then many of them only flower for one or two years, before fading, flowering less well and then reducing to just foliage before vanishing. These are meant to be longer-lived, and (combined with planting them as deeply as I could) I hope they'll brighten the herb garden for some time.

I planted a hundred of these last autumn, but forgot to make a note of it: however, they're similar to some we've had a few years, and which I wrote about in 2013&emdash; when they're pictured with the nascent herb garden in the background.

They looked good, earlier this year, but a hundred wasn't enough, hence rather increasing numbers. They're now all over the herb garden, in and amongst other things.