Tulips Sentence Examples

Clusius was so devastated by this that he never grew tulips again.

Tulips are ubiquitous with spring and represent new life.

Tulips need a cold dormant season in order to bloom, but not too cold.

Choosing tulips to grow in your yard can be a lot of fun.

It is definitely somewhere to return to, probably in the Spring for the wild tulips.

I also seem to have a lot of red tulips - I hadn't realized how many I'd bought last autumn.

Huge white backlit tulips accentuated the dark green of the yews.

Single early tulips The single early tulips flower from early April onwards.

O come love these fearful warring armies & plant tulips deep inside their guns.

The natural species from which modern garden tulips were derived are still a matter for speculation.

I also seem to have a lot of red tulips - I had n't realized how many I 'd bought last autumn.

It is believed that tulips were first cultivated in Turkey around the year 1000.

The first European to see tulips visited the Ottoman Empire in the 1550s and soon made the flowers a luxury item in the gardens of Europe.

It wasn't long before tulips were introduced to Holland, where botanists experimented with different colors and petal shapes.

By the 1630s, a wide range of tulips were available in Holland and beyond.

Poorer people could buy the plain yellow tulips that are still familiar to many gardeners, while rich people could buy flowers such as the Semper Augustus, which sported red flames and was sold for exorbitant prices.

Tulips are arranged into different varieties depending on when in the season they bloom and the height of the flower stalk.

Tulips are generally categorized as early-, mid- and late-season varieties, and short (smaller than 8 inches), medium (8 to 18 inches) and tall (taller than 18 inches).

As you choose tulips for your yard, consider the amount of space you have.

Most tulips are treated as annuals in the United States because their ability to rebloom is unpredictable.

Tulips don't like moist summers, which many bulbs get when they are part of a flower bed with shrubs, trees or other flowers that are watered regularly.

Some tulips will rebloom if they are planted at the proper depth in well-drained, properly fertilized soil and if the foliage is allowed to die back naturally and not trimmed while still green.

There are now tulips on the market advertised as perennial tulips, which are a lot more likely to bloom year after year than other varieties.

Tulips should be planted in the fall or early winter, when the soil temperature has fallen to about 60 degrees.

Tulips look great in the yard, but don't forget to pick a few to enjoy inside the house.

A mixed bouquet of tulips looks great on a kitchen table and is a wonderful way to bring a bit of spring into the house.

Slower growing trees that still fall in the fast-growing category are the tulip poplar, which makes flowers that look sort of like tulips in the late spring, Norway spruce, autumn purple ash and the quaking aspen.

Next, add tulips and daisies or Easter lilies spaced among the grass.

This includes all of the Star Tulips and the C. nitidus group.

There is, however, a race of giant Star Tulips, sturdy plants 9 inches to 16 inches high, with large flowers of the same delicate style as Maweanus, which, although rare now, will soon quite displace the smaller ones.

The results are bulbs such as daffodils, tulips and hyacinth available for purchase fully in bloom.

Not only is fall the time to plant all those gorgeous bulbs that blossom in the springtime - tulips, daffodils, hyacinth, crocus and so many more - but perennials love the fall, too.

Gardeners should also consider where they wish to plant spring flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocus, narcissus and daffodils, for each of these bulbs must be planted in the fall.

Look around the flower garden and think about the best places to add tulips, daffodils and crocus.

With millions of tulips blooming in a dazzling array of colors, this festival is a sight to behold.

From simple two-dimensional tulips to large, modular roses with multiple steps, you can learn to fold a flower regardless of your skill level.

In spring, rings with tulips and gently colored flowers are appropriate, while rings with brilliant leaves, twigs, and nuts are best for autumn.

After all, your mother forced you to pick the white roses over the multi-colored tulips you wanted, right?

Choose fresh seasonal blooms such as tulips and daffodils, both of which are associated with Easter and the beginning of spring.

Choose lilies or tulips for centerpieces, and arrange them in low baskets so that everyone can see the guests on the other side of the table.

In spring, azaleas, magnolias, tulips, and other blooms are truly breathtaking.

The inn's beautiful gardens are covered with tulips in the springtime.

Market-gardening, especially horticulture, is extensively practised in the vicinity, so that Haarlem is the seat of a large trade in Dutch bulbs, especially hyacinths, tulips, fritillaries, spiraeas and japonicas.

Of late years tulips have become very popular in America, and an extensive trade is now done between the U.S.A. and Europe.

The florists' varieties of tulips, which have sprung from Tulipa Gesneriana, are arranged in separate classes named bizarres, bybloemens and roses, according to their colour and marking.

Judged by the florists' rules, they are either good or bad in form, and pure or stained (white or yellow) at the base; the badly formed and stained flowers are thrown away, while the good and pure are grown on, these being known as "breeder" tulips.

Tulips flourish in any good garden soil that has been deeply dug or trenched and manured the previous season.

After planting the space between the rows of tulips may be planted with such plants as forget-me-nots, wallflowers, silenes, violas, double white arabis, polyanthuses, &c., to obtain beautiful colour combinations in spring.

Tulips are usually increased by offsets, which most varieties produce in fairly large numbers.

A supply of roses, kalmias, rhododendrons, &c., and of hardy flowers and bulbs, as lily of the valley, hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, &c., should be kept up by forcing.

Pot hyacinths, tulips and other bulbs for forcing; and propagate half-hardy plants by cuttings.

Plant the greater part of the common border bulbs, as hyacinths, narcissi, crocuses and early tulips, about the end of the month, with a few anemones for early flowering.

Hyacinths, tulips and other spring bulbs may be dug up, dried and placed away for next fall's planting, and their places filled with bedding plants, such as coleus, achyranthes, pelargoniums, and the various white and coloured leaf plants.

Dutch bulbs, such as hyacinths, tulips, crocus, &c., and most of the varieties of lilies, may be planted.

Cover up all beds in which there are hyacinths, tulips and other bulbs with a litter of leaves or straw to the depth of 2 or 3 in.

The principal market products are cauliflower, cabbage, onions, asparagus, gherkins, cucumbers, beans, peas, &c. The principal flowers are hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus and other bulbous plants, the total export of which is estimated at over 200,000.

Below the apple blossom the garden is full of tulips in several shades and electric blue corydalis.

In this area Ian grows dahlias and tulips, plants that can be changed from time to time.

Tulips The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.

Serenata Flowers offer flowers and bouquets ideal for Mothers Day gifts including freesias, lillies, orchids, roses and tulips.

This year I have more tulips, having bought more last autumn.

Oh, there's something I forgot to mention - bent back tulips now has its own Search page.

Fill modern translucent plastic colored vases with yellow tulips.

I told her they were tulips; but of course she didn't understand the word-play.

Although an attractive flower its coloring Is somewhat subdued when compared with the brilliant cultivated tulips in our gardens.

Every part is richly decorated with flowers (including tulips), hearts, twisting vines, and grotesque heads of humans and animals.

Oh, there 's something I forgot to mention - bent back tulips now has its own Search page.

Some flowers have pure colors, while others are more variegated and others combine several colors, like red tulips with yellow stripes or bronzy flowers with white stripes.

Tulips were introduced into the Low Countries in the 16th century from Constantinople and the Levant.

Impressive borders can be created by planting tulips in large groups of the same variety.

Every part is richly decorated with flowers (including tulips ), hearts, twisting vines, and grotesque heads of humans and animals.

The drawing room had crystal cylinder vases strategically placed all around, filled with large parrot tulips of every shade.

Tulips are readily raised from seeds, and the seedlings when they first flower (after about 7 years cultivation) are of one colour - that is, they are self-coloured.

The soil in which tulips are propagated should be sandy, free working and thoroughly drained.

At the present day tulips of all kinds are much more extensively grown than at any previous period.

His eyes seemed to swirl, around and around, changing from the color of her mother's tulips to a color almost as dark as the night.

Rows of red tulips stood like sentinels along the walkway, struggling to survive against the encroachment of summer.