Star Tulip
(Tulip Tarda)
Photo By: KPA -
Port Credit, Mississauga
This early species tulip stays low to the ground, and tolerates a root-filled space on a slope in my dry, sandy garden – albeit in one of its sunniest spots. The bulbs seem to increase, and always look incorrigibly cheerful in their sunnyside-up, fried-egg colours, each opening to a six-pointed star in the sunlight.
[Text source: Toronto Botanical Gardens Blog]