The gardening gurus are right, much as I hate to admit it! These rather pathetic leaves tucked under a hedge of screening evergreens are in fact tulips - they flowered in the first season - just like these...
but in subsequent years they've got smaller and smaller. These green tulips on the other hand are still flourishing - in their second year of planting, but are not a patch on these...
which were planted just a few months ago.
