Seizing the Moment

My tulips have finally reached the point of almost-disintegration. I've been waiting for this, I like them to be relaxed to the point of flopping. 

I'm hoping they will now wither into gracefully shrivelled shapes, time will tell.

I'm very proud of these. I grew them from a bag of mixed tulips, no varieties named and a hundred for about 12 quid - so I wasn't expecting much. These are the first to open. It will be very interesting to see what we get next.

And I'm very pleased that the badgers haven't managed to penetrate the defences and dig them up - someone once told me that tulips are the badger equivalent of caviar.