{"id":1521,"date":"2009-05-26T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/tulips\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:42:05","slug":"tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a terrible time keeping tulips growing here.  We have a colony of chipmunks who think we put them out to provide gourmet meals for the darned critters!  Seventeen years or so ago, Elegante Mother, Dear Husband and I made a trip to Holland, Michigan with <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/nan\/\">Frankie<\/a> and her family, for the Tulip Fest.  We bought tons of tulip bulbs to decorate our (fairly) new gardens, and within two years, not a bulb was left! (Picture me pouting, here.)<br \/>\nAt any rate, we managed to get some tulip blossoms this year, so I thought I&#8217;d share them before they disappeared.  It the first picture below, the one yellow tulip is not a sport; rather I think it is the only tulip left of a dozen yellow tulips from the previous year.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulips 1 2009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Tulips%201%202009.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"500\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulips 2 2009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Tulips%202%202009.jpg\" width=\"506\" height=\"500\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nI believe the short tulips in front are called &#8220;Angelique.&#8221;  They have been with us for a couple of years.  I keep waiting for them to disappear, but they may not be tasty to the chippies.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulips 3 2009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Tulips%203%202009.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulips 4 2009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Tulips%204%202009.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"452\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nAnd these are the Darwin tulips, the only tulip we have ever found that rodents don&#8217;t disturb.  These tulips are one of the earliest flowers to bloom in my gardens, beating out many of the daffodils.  The color looks to be in the pink range here, but in full bloom, on a warm day, they tend to be more of a  hot orangey-red.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tulips 5 2009 Darwin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Tulips%205%202009%20Darwin.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a terrible time keeping tulips growing here. We have a colony of chipmunks who think we put them out to provide gourmet meals for the darned critters! Seventeen years or so ago, Elegante Mother, Dear Husband and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/tulips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}