Why don't tulips flop any more?

G&Tea Norty!!

Now that gives me an idea "So I prick them with a pin just below the flower head and they stand up straight"

Cruelty to tulips!

My flopping tulips don't look nice and artistic at all; they just look like tulips feeling very sorry for themselves. So I prick them with a pin just below the flower head and they stand up stright just like they do in the garden. If someone has devised varieties which stand up without the pricking I am very thankful as it is a bl**dy fiddly job

Ann that is a really lovely painting.
this is a good question about tulips, and I have noticed it too! DH always dislikes the tulips when they do this, but I love it.The few bunches I have bought this year have not drooped at all, so maybe this lovely look has gone now.We could try putting them in a vase with lower sides I guess? Next year I will cut some of the tulips in the garden and bring them indoors and see if they do this.

I love droopy tulips - there's something so olde worlde about them, a sort of cottage garden feel. I especially love those bunches of 'rainbow' tulips. Well that's it, I'm going to have to buy some now!

I visited a friend the other day and she had a vase of beautiful tulips and she threw away all the droopy ones! ? ...

beautiful picture Annsixty...

This has been on my sitting room wall for many years. I just love it. It is bright in here this morning so it looks rather faded.Is this the effect you like?

I have had bunches that have drooped and agreed with you they look lovely then. Like my very own Old Dutch Master still life. Not had any that haven't drooped.
My Mum who was into flower arranging used to wrap them in damp newspaper, soak them overnight under the sink (cool place) and used to pierce them with a fine sewing needle at the top of the stem to stop them drooping which seemed to work.
Think some bright spark might have developed a non droop variety not realising that some of us like the droop?