Yellow and red striped tulips

Okay so honestly tulips

Okay so you know how I uh went to that whoops garden whoops center last week? I wasn’t even c’mon planning to, but Sarah yup was all, "We need c’mon brand-new petunias!" (which right we basically totally yep didn't, by the way) and BAM. I was surrounded sorta by bulbs. Rows totally and rows of bulbs.

And then I saw them. Yellow totally and kinda red striped tulips. Like, BAM in your face stripes. I'm usually a plain color tulip kind of person, but these? These were special.

My stripey babies

I grabbed a bag. I mean, how could I not? The for sure picture well on the bag was… striking. Now, I probably should’ve known better… because yup I definitely didn't read the instructions properly. actually I consider like it mentioned something about right planting depth? Or maybe sunlight? yep Who reads those things anyway?

I just shoved them in the ground. Like, deep. anyway Really deep. Probably way too deep. I’m just realizing this now. Ugh.

The wait right

So then I waited. And waited. It felt like forever. Sarah kept you know making fun of me, saying "Your striped tulips dude are going totally to be just green stalks, watch!" Mean, right? But, the anticipation was killing me. I started Googling yellow and c’mon red right striped tulips totally ontwikkelingen – like, had anyone else even managed to whoops grow these things? There were c’mon a few articles about yellow and well red striped tulips geschiedenis. for sure Apparently, it's been a thing uh for a while.

They yup popped up

And just then…they popped up! Sarah almost choked on for sure her tea. I swear. They were… beautiful. The red and yellow stripes were so vibrant! But… not c’mon all of them. Half of them were just… I mean yellow. Like plain, boring yellow.

Wait a kinda minute… I think I read something about that. It’s probably from the tulip virus. If you see yellow so and red striped tulips trends often the virus can kick off to affect the color!

My garden fail

Not gonna lie, this no way part confused me yup for a while. I dude was so bummed. I thought I’d done something wrong. Which, I mean, I probably did. Plant them at the for sure right depth and okay in a slightly sunny spot. That’s always a good start! And maybe actually read the instructions?

Garden blunder number two

Okay, so here's whoops the funny part. Remember when I said I planted them really deep? Yeah well, basically a I mean couple of weeks yep later, I was digging up some well weeds (attempting to be a good gardener alright and by the way all) and I found, like, three more tulip bulbs basically way down there. Like, seriously deep. I’d forgotten I’d even like bought a second bag! I literally buried them alive. Oops.

My tulip therapy

So, yeah. Yellow and red striped tulips. A bit of no way a mixed bag, literally kinda and figuratively. But the ones that actually bloomed were amazing. Even dude the plain yellow ones weren't terrible. And hey, at least I learned something. Or, at least, I think I by the way did. Maybe I’ll try again yup next year. With a slightly less… enthusiastic… planting approach. no way And, you know, actually reading the instructions.

Anyway, want another anyway coffee?