Tulips with Butterflies

It is immensely satisfying to go online or, perhaps better
still, visit your local garden centre in late autumn and
select your tulip bulbs.
Nowadays they are very reliable. Planted in pots or in the
ground you can almost invariably enjoy a mass of
blooms, chosen from a huge range of shapes, forms and
colours to suit every taste, when the ground starts to
warm up again in the spring.
Once they have flowered it is advisable to discard the
bulbs and replace them, possibly with a different variety,
the following autumn.
Another hauntingly beautiful creature which emerges in
late spring is the butterfly, seen here fluttering through
and around a variety of tulip called ‘Groenland’, from the
vidiflora group.