Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Wild tulips

Sierra de La Cabrera. A hot spring day, the sun high in the sky and despite the fact that snow is still to be seen, the conditions are right for these wild tulips to 'strut their stuff'!

The tulips were out and enjoying the sunshine; the Spanish lavender had yet to make up its mind whether to come out and play! It's usually the other way round in mid May in the Sierra de La Cabrera!

They seem to like this degraded granite slope. It is saturated with rain and snow melt in winter but is free-draining after that.

Not sure whether to open up just yet! Sierra de La Cabrera

They only open at the height of the strongest sun and when the temperature gets really hot, sometimes for an hour or so only. I have seen them closed on a sunny and warm day - it just wasn't quite hot enough. This is not photoshopped or edited in any major way. The tulip colours and the grey of the degraded granite were as seen. Sight and sound! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHwzyqFRDE