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Every year I wait to see which tulips will come up again in my garden borders. Sometimes there are just one or two survivors from a pack of bulbs planted a few years before. (It’s a while since I’ve planted any new bulbs because there are too many changes being made to be sure of leaving them undisturbed.)
Sadly, there are fewer of the ‘Spring Green’ tulips this year (above). I love the colouring of these because it feels so fresh and subtle, so I will try more of them once things in the garden are a bit more settled.
The flower here looks quite yellowish, but that is a little misleading. The yellow is partly because the flower is newly-opened and it fades towards white as the flower matures. (In a photograph, sometimes a hint of yellow or blue can be added by the colour of the light…that is something that varies with the time of day and the season.)
I’m less keen on the colouring of the tulip below. It’s not what it was supposed to be! I’d ordered a pack of tulips in pink and crimson shades but somehow they turned out to be a mix of red and yellow. Unfortunately they really don’t suit the other colours of the border they’re in, so I may try to move them elsewhere (or I could just cut them for the house). Never mind, at least they can be used for photography! And now I am waiting for the parrot tulips to open…
Ann Mackay: Inspired by Nature 
I’m quite taken with the first tulip. Its yellow-green shade is refreshing. You must have received a good number of surprises over the years: ordering bulbs or seeds and then watching to see what actually develops. I suspect the gap between your idea and the reality of certain bulbs might be rather wide from time to time, for a variety of reasons.
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Sometimes there’s a slight gap between expectations and the real thing, but sometimes there’s a mistake in packing bulbs (as with the red and yellow tulip). But with tulips, a large part of the surprise is not knowing what will survive from year to year…then there’s simply forgetting where bulbs are planted or accidentally digging one up a planting it somewhere else. It all makes tulip time very interesting, hehe!
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“In a photograph, sometimes a hint of yellow or blue can be added by the colour of the light…that is something that varies with the time of day and the season.” Other things that influence how things look in a photograph are the sensor in the camera that took the picture, the software that renders the digital image, and the monitor on which we look at a digital image. Beyond that are the eyes and brain of the beholder.
And speaking or replicating reality (or not), your mention of parrot tulips had me imagining that those flowers mimic what people say to them.
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Yes indeed, Steve…I sometimes feel that my camera gives an extra saturation to greens, though that could be subjective. In this case, I’ve photographed these tulips before and even just by looking at them in the garden can see that they open with a yellowish tint, but will become more white as they progress. I ought to calibrate my monitor more often than I do!
If my flowers start to talk at all, I’m going to be seriously worried, LOL! 🙂
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Spring green are lovely tulips, I don’t seem to have any returns. It’s interesting to see how some change colour as they mature. Grand Perfection start off very yellow with red streaks, but the yellow turns pure white.
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I don’t have many now but I’ll probably try some more in future because another viridiflora tulip here has done well. (That one is, I think, Dolls Minuet, and has lots of flowers this year.) Grand Perfection looks as if it would be fun to photograph. Seeing colours change in flowers is quite entertaining!
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