Darwin tulip

The great formal garden, still gay with Darwin tulips and beginning to show banks of iris flowers against lilac shrubbery, looked extremely expensive.

"I must see those Darwin tulips over there."

These should be mostly species; if horticultural, do not use the bizarre—Darwin tulips, for example, or the Madame Chereau iris.

The first thing that comes in the spring is poet's narcissus, then groups of Darwin tulips; both of these are naturalized and remain in the ground from year to year.

A bed of this beneath pale pink Darwin tulips is one of the lovely memories of last spring's garden.