Sunday 6th May 2012

Poor Little Rich Gays are away. Robert Nevil has gone to Edinburgh with Joshua Baring to visit Blanche Spain and been served a dessert with pansy garnish. The Multis have gained New York for Frieze Art Fair (the Blond Multi: ‘It’ll be great in New York because Frieze Art Fair will be on and we’ve got VIP entrance….oh, but I hate Frieze Art Fair’). They proceed to Palm Beach and New Orleans on visits to Grand Gays. Prince Dmitri Hersov is also in America but has not been heard of.

So I fall back on my tulips. This year I planned, for my front area, an exotic, daring ensemble of cardinal red, rich mottled bronze and royal purple. The result is a teeny bit common. For my upstairs terrace it was to be black, white and a tulip called Abu Hanza (no, Abu Hussein which is a burnished Middle Eastern orange/bronze). But something else came up, not Abu Hussein. Nevertheless the gloomy, funereal effect is most attractive, I find.

I’ve a third trio in my back garden which I’m saving to show you another time.

Tulip Time: Princess Irene (gold), Coleur Cardinal (red), Magic Lavender (Lavender)

Tulip Time: Coleur Cardinal (red), and Princess Irene (bronze)

Paul Scheerer (black), White Dream (white) with Unknown: Surprise Funeral Effect: Good

Paul Scheerer (black), White Dream (white) with Unknown: Mournful and Thunderous: Great

What was Meant to Be: Abu Hussein is the Orange One Here, in My Garden 2009. Seen with Paul Scheerer (black) and White Dream (white)