pictures from April, part I

[jinian]

These have been lying around a while. A rainy day on which I am holed up at home all crampy and miserable seems like a fine time to post them.


April 26 seems to have been the height of spring bulb time. Here's some camas. One of the cuter things about bulbs is that they'll make little tiny versions of the regular flower if they're not quite ready for prime time, which some of the camas did this year. This is the regular size, though.


Daffodils!




(This one's really fragrant and beautiful. Yay mixed bulbs.)


Tulips!


Tulipa dasystemon




Tulipa humilis is as adorably low to the ground as its name implies.


Tulipa batalinii is still my favorite.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I think this one is my favorite:

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's a beauty. Intense pink, rainbowy gradation in the throat, pure white color, those little poinks on the petals. (I still want to know why it's always the trumpet that's pink and never the outer corolla.) And it's always nice when the composition ends up looking cool -- I don't really perceive it that well when I'm taking snapshots, so neat stuff like that irregular right trumpet edge against the white is mostly luck. :)

[eub.livejournal.com]

What lovely pointy tulips.