Look what's happened to my tulips :(

Just over a week ago I shared these tulips with you in all their glory. They looked fabulous against the deep blue sky (see link below).

We've has some bad weather over the last 24 hours. It has rained, snowed and sleeted with strong cold winds. The net result of this bad weather is a set of flattened and saddened tulips

http://365project.org/phil_howcroft/365/2012-03-25

My daffs aren't much better either, the've been flattened too.

The wonder of mother nature...beautiful one moment and then it comes along and destroy's what it helped to create

[Anita]

Oh what a shame, Phil. I don't think much could have stood up to the weather we've had and to think we were all in short sleeves last week!

[Pat Knowles]

Oh dear , never mind they will be bobbing up in the morning I bet you !! No weeds there in your garden Phil although I suppose it's too early yet for those little devils !!!

[Kerri]

Oh poor tulips

[Mandy-Jayne]

Aww that's a shame it must be so confusing for the plants the weather the way it is

[Mags]

Aww! Can you prop them up to help them out? Such a shame! They were so lovely, too!

[Constance Brinkley]

I can empathize. This looks like our tulips in the NW. We have had our share of moisture too. However, this does make for a great unique shot!

[Rona]

Aw, poor things. Here in the Seattle area, tulips are just barely starting to bloom. In about two weeks is bloom time for the Tulip Festival, I think the biggest in the US, about an hour north of Seattle.

[🐓 Patricia Fletcher]

But this shot shows their bedraggled, wet beauty.

[Judith Johnson]

Oh dear - I suppose you could always bring them into the house?

[Sue Wilde]

But they are still so very beautiful Phil. Sorry about your weather. We are having warmer days than we had during summer

[Judith Greenwood]

Maybe they are just having a lie down until the weather improves?! My daffs haven't appeared at all this year - I think the very dry year we had last year was very bad for the bulbs perhaps.

[santina]

beautiful photo, like the colors

[Juliette Packham]

ah poor things, I felt like that on the morning in question - nothing in my defence to protect me from the onslaught of the weather! Snow? in April? hrumph! was freezing cold in Leeds!

[Allison Williams]

I predict they will reassert themselves. Nature doesn't go down without a struggle.