Red riot!!! Its a stunning spring day up here in Northumberland.. about time, the sun is out and unusually the wind has dropped!!! Its a day to be in the garden. My gardens not too big and at the moment has a almost display of beautiful tulips - I say 'almost' because I'm a little disappointed - as I state every time we walk past the flowers much to my partners amusement - I bought the bulbs from the flower market in Amsterdam last year when we visited for a few day to celebrate my birthday. I was really looking forward to the spring time reminder of a fabulous few days away with the riot of colour the mixed bulbs, frilly petals, 'black', mottled, etc selection I had carefully chosen would provide. What I got was red, red red .... all the other colours were ones I had put in the year before.... still they are very pretty standing tall and upright in the sunshine. Interspersed with bright blue forgetmenots they are set off nicely by an old stone wall w...