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MadAlice · 02-18-2023, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Goblinfrog

"Professor, why are there no black tulips?" Or were their black tulips, but maybe they represented a vice instead of a virtue? Lola very much liked the color black, being Goth and all.

"Well, Miss A., there are in fact black tulips--they were created by careful breeding by horticulturists fairly recently. Before that, they were only a myth, found only in novels and such. But those are ordinary tulips, the kind wizards and Muggles both might have in their gardens. Unfortunately, there are no black trilling tulips, so I didn't bring any today. I'm afraid you'll have to make do with ordinary colors for this exercise. But if you like, I'll try to get hold of a few when I next go home to the Netherlands. There's a variety called the 'Queen of Night' tulip." Tapio was in fact planning to plant a tulip garden around his cabin in the spring, so maybe he could get one of his friends back home to find him some black ones.

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MadAlice Puffskein Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 2,394 Hogwarts RPG Name: Hope Archard Ravenclaw Fifth Year	Quote: Originally Posted by Goblinfrog "Professor, why are there no black tulips?" Or were their black tulips, but maybe they represented a vice instead of a virtue? Lola very much liked the color black, being Goth and all. "Well, Miss A., there are in fact black tulips--they were created by careful breeding by horticulturists fairly recently. Before that, they were only a myth, found only in novels and such. But those are ordinary tulips, the kind wizards and Muggles both might have in their gardens. Unfortunately, there are no black trilling tulips, so I didn't bring any today. I'm afraid you'll have to make do with ordinary colors for this exercise. But if you like, I'll try to get hold of a few when I next go home to the Netherlands. There's a variety called the 'Queen of Night' tulip." Tapio was in fact planning to plant a tulip garden around his cabin in the spring, so maybe he could get one of his friends back home to find him some black ones.