A Very Strange Tulip

I bought this pot of forced tulips at least a month ago and planted it in a container in my courtyard. It finally bloomed enough to see just how much of a mutant it is! Frilly, striped, oddly colored. But here it is in all of its glory.

You might be interested in learning just how tulips develop their strange frills and fringes - caused actually by genetic mutation: The Twisted, Mutated History of the Beautiful Tulip

Miserable day today - cold, windy, and at times very rainy. I only left the house to go to physical therapy.