Archive for May, 2009

Digital scan: Late tulips

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Below is a digital scan I made of some late-season tulips from my garden. (Click on the image for a full-screen view.)
All it takes is an ordinary flat-bed scanner — the kind used to scan documents and found in almost every office. In addition to being a very satisfying way of ‘preserving’ your blooms [...]

Cornell flower bulb labyrinth

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Last fall, we reported about an ambitious project by students in Dr. Bill Miller’s herbaceous perennials class at Cornell University to plant a flower bulb labyrinth with some 14,000 bulbs. (See Cornell students plant bulb labyrinth.)
This spring, the results have been spectacular:

The bulbs — a mix of daffodils, tulips and grape hyacinth — were [...]