Are there tulips in the supermarket?

[ColdinSeptember]

Has anyone seen tulips in the supermarkets?
DD needs some for an art project and I need to pop out at lunch tomorrow and get some, if anyone has seen any that would be super helpful.

Wrong time of the year for Tulips, they are a spring flower - usually between April and June.

If there are they will be pretty expensive! It’s hard to get spring flowers to bloom in October.

As the pp said, tulips are a Springtime flower. (Assuming you're in the UK.)

She isn't going to get them in a supermarket I don't think.

Sunflowers. Tell DD her art project would be MUCH better with sunflowers. Or Michaelmas daisies.

www.dunelm.com/product/artificial-tulip-stem-1000234692

Fake ones on Amazon

Damn. Nope it needs to be real tulips and only them. It’s for A level art and she needs to be able to paint/draw from life.

might need to ring round some florists then. Damn!

What sort of eejit art teacher demands flowers unavailable for another 6 months for an Art project???

She can’t draw any other flower from life?

@ColdinSeptember , I’d be having words. That’s an impossible task to set students.

What sort of eejit art teacher demands flowers unavailable for another 6 months for an Art project??? My thoughts exactly! No thought gone into this, Art tutor needs educating!

Good luck with getting tulips from a florist. Your question is like asking can I get holly with berries in July, or an orange maple leaf in April. Totally ridiculous!

What the F? Surely the teacher knows you can't get tulips in October FFS! 😆

Tell the school they are being ridiculous! If said teacher wants tulips he/she can bring them in LOL.

Very unlikely that you will get tulips anywhere. Florists and supermarkets have them earlier than they would bloom naturally but not at this time of year.

Tell the teacher to bring them in and you will pay her 🤣

Has the tutor told them they have to bring them in? Surely not? I just don't think it will be possible to get them.

Could she get some artificial tulips to look at for the shape and take a vase of gladioli in for the petals? I don't know if they're the best option around right now but I think I'd gomfor that or roses from what I know will be in the shops.

Obviously she'd have to combine the two but it might be better than nothing?

It’s something she’s picked to do with a specific artist.
I don’t think art teacher realised.

A lot of 18th century still lives were deliberately anachronistic, with flowers, fruits etc that could never have bloomed together at the same time. So in that sense it means that she is in kind of good company with wanting to paint something out of time. It also means the early Dutch masters would have had to have cheated a bit on the whole drawing from life front at least part of their paintings would have had to work on prepared sketches of the flowers in question or some other work around (I actually don't know what. Hmm.)

So it is is an artist from that vein couldn't she argue her choosing to draw from sketches or fake flowers etc is in fact a meat-commentary. If it has to be a real flower you will probably have to substitute.

(meta commentary not meat commentary. Meat commentator sounds kind of gross).

These might do.

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