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Pretty twisted

pira

6/1/09 07:04 am

TODAY...no dolly piccies.

We have for your viewing pleausure: images of parrot tulips, in all their twisted glory :3

These guys really presented a problem, because they have a natural, waxy surface that reflects light in an odd fashion or appears grey before they completely unfurled...so I had to wait a day and go back when they'd opened u a bit more.

While I genuinely find pleasure in the streamlined angles of a regular tulip, after a while they all look the same. On the other hand, the parrot variety presents an endless parade of contours and shadows in which not only do the colour break but the petals do as well, feathering and curling in individually unique directions ~ they are rather like the anti-tulip tulip >D

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• stormcloude

  6/1/09 01:56 pm (UTC)

  

  I don't think I've ever seen that variety of tulip before. It's interesting, but I think I like the regular ones better.
  
  Isn't there a really pretty fringed variety?

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  • pira

    6/1/09 06:00 pm (UTC)

    

    Parrot tulips are twisted or fringed....or both. :)
    
    I really love the straight lines of regular tulips but after a while around here...you've seen a lot of little neat soldier tulips and one starts hankering for something a bit ...bent.
    
    Our city loves to plant tulips. THOUSANDS of bulbs get shoved into the ground each autumn and I can't swing a cat around here without seeing the regular variety XD...and seeing as I live in the down town there is no missing them.
    
    This year for some reason (I think over population) the squirrels have lost their minds and have been eating the heads off tulips stalks just before they bloom. I and others had groupings of new bulbs that we never got to enjoy and for the life of me I can't recall what colour I stuck inthe ground since they became Squirrel candy. *0__o....about time for a population crash if you ask me.

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