The slightly yellower ones are the only reliably perennial tulip in my garden. One survived out of a whole pack of 20 a few years ago, but it has very slowly increased in a little clump. There are a dozen or so of them this year. Hopefully more of your originals will survive @Mary370 and they'll all clump up. I love them - very pretty, delicate flowers
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Four years ago I had zero gardening experience and so had a garden designer do everything for me in my small new-build garden. My brief was for hardy, mostly evergreen, low-maintenance plants; a big no to self-seeders and annuals — cue pittosporums, skimmia, bamboo, euonymus, escallonia, ferns, festuca, pennisetum. If there were flowers, they would only be purple and white (or pale green for the hellebores, pale pink for thyme). Included among those low-maintenance plants were lavender, rosemary, thyme, hellebores, an oak-leaf hydrangea and star jasmine, which got me into appreciating flowers and their pollinators.
I’ve now been slowly introducing salvias, agapanthus, crocuses, alliums, nepeta (the small neat kind like Purrsian Blue), roses, a clematis and campanula to the garden, and become more relaxed about colours and plants mixing together... Still not tried dahlias or tulips, but I’m actually contemplating a hanging basket, maybe this year or next — who knows!
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”