"With a Little Help for My Stems..." part 2

A week ago I described the technique that Carolyn used to prop up some heavy-headed tulips for display at the church. This week our garden was again blessed with beautiful tulips. But instead of the flaming reds and yellows of last week, they were restful white and lavender blossoms.


Equally as beautiful in their own way, these flowers shared the same problem of heavy blossoms and stems that just weren't quite up to the task of holding those blossoms. This time my clever wife had another trick up her sleeve. On all but one of two of the tulip stems she slipped a stiff drinking straw!

She used green straws on some and lavender straws on others. Both seemed to work equally as well. The eye doesn't seem to distinguish and question a purple stem when it is the blossom which should be that color.