Over by the river, a maple had shaken out its new foliage and under it bloomed a clump of late tulips.

Red chips, as Chinese companies are known, are Hong Kong's latest tulip.

It has a spicy scent and flowers with the late tulips toward the end of May.

ONLY remnants of the hardy bulb show remain with just a smattering of the late tulips in bloom.

The daffodils, she thought, would be finished now, but some of the late tulips should still be in bloom.

The drapes were thrown wide so that the garden seemed to spill inside with the pastel hues of early roses, late tulips and nodding columbine.

Tulipa tarda (late tulip, tarda tulip) is a perennial growing from a bulb.

And some of it, particularly that of the late tulips, is ugly.

A ND what about the Virginia bluebells these books are always rhapsodizing about (so beautiful with late red tulips!)

Lutie paused to admire a high spring garden overflowing with azalea, wisteria, rhododendron, and late blooming tulips.