Water and watch it grow twice as tall as other tulips!
Blushing Lady and Toyota
A Darwin Hybrid. The tallest of all flowers in my garden, including perennial sunflowers.. perhaps excluding the Jerusalem artichoke. They must be about three feet tall and are visible from quite a distance.
The flowerheads are initially small and pale colored, but with time they grow to size L and develop the most lovely deep pastel shades you'd expect from a ripe peach - yellow melting with pink and hints of orange. They are spectacular, even though they tend to crawl like snakes if the spring is very windy. They are completely charming even then. I remember I had to tie them to supports last year, this year, however, we have had drought and truly summer temperatures almost without wind, and they are doing just great. The flowers open towards the sun, but they don't go completely flat, which I don't find attractive, they remain cup-shaped.
At dusk they close tightly.
Second year in the ground without being lifted.
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