Yellow Tulips

Just a few more signs of spring around the house.

Yellow tulips - not sure what variety - come up next to the well.

There is a fake well in our back yard. I call it le vrai faux puits (the genuine fake well). When we moved in, it was planted with something called saxifrage ; both inside the well and around its base were overgrown with the stuff. We took them out, and found a paved path around the well. The next spring, a single yellow tulip came up where the saxifrage was. Here's a post from last year showing the well.

The saxifrage puts up purple flowers on stalks in spring.

Muscari (grape hyacinth) also comes up around the well now, too. And we've planted black-eye susans there. Some of the saxifrage survived, but it adds to the mix, so we left it.

The star-shaped yellow tulip from above.

This year the yellow tulip has multiple flowers and is thriving. Inside the well, we planted lavender. It's doing ok, but there are some bare patches. So last fall, I dug up some bellflower (campanulus muralis) from out front, campanules in French, and planted it in the bare spots. It's doing fine and starting to put out its little purple flowers now. Over the next few years it should spill out over the side of the well and be quite nice.