Tulipa 2011

[FrazerHenderson]

Gardening Illustrated (no 189, vol IV, 21 October 1882) advises that "Ground for these [tulipa] must now be prepared, as planting time is at hand; the surface of the beds cannot be turned over too often when they are dry. Look over the bulbs and see that they are in good condition. Some sharp and and good rotten turfy loam should be in readiness"

well, only a few more weeks to go!

An advert from the magazine - James Veitch &Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea presents 100 early single tulips for 5s 6d per 100 (oh how it takes one back, but obviously not to 1882! For younger members 5s 6d is 27.5p but taking into account over 120 years of compound inflation would now be a small fortune).

[PeterT]

27 1/2  new pence -still a lot of money. fancy plants then were the perogative of the very wealthy.
Have you read Jane Austin's "Emma" (I think it was this one) -Emma thinks that the vicars wife has ideas way above her station, because the vicars wife planted a shrubbery!

[FrazerHenderson]

A good resource for tulips is the recently redesigned website for the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society It now provides a good deal more of relevant information.Worth checking out!


  http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/
 

 

[Boyed]

A good resource for tulips is the recently redesigned website for the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society It now provides a good deal more of relevant information.Worth checking out!

  http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/
 

Frazer,

Thanks a lot for the news! I checked the web-site and saw they put more info. And I even saw the new bizarre tulip 'Lemuria. Glad to see that hybridising with ENGLISH FLORISTS' TULIPS goes on nowadays. Hope, to see more updates.

[Maggi Young]

New book for Tulip Lovers
 I was very happy to find information  about this book on the VRV forum...
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=565.0


Followers of Luit's  superb thread, the "Connoiseur Collection"  ..... 
     (  http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1331.0  )
will know of the remakable Dutch grower Kees (Cees)  Breed. This man has one of the most astonishing private collections of bulbs imaginable. A particular favourite of his are the tulips and he has a world class collection  made since the 1950s of old and special rare tulips...around 1900 varieties ... many of them historical types, most lost to general cultivation many years ago. Some date back to the time of Clusius and Tulipomania!

A new book is available, price 19 euros... with 100 photographs of lost or forgotten tulip varieties from the collection of Mr Breed.
The book has been produced by his son, Eric Breed.
The book may be ordered by email  :
 info@tulippictures.eu
More information is here :
http://www.tulippictures.eu/LOST+TULIPS/

[FrazerHenderson]

Details of tulip shows for 2012can be obtained from the folowing website:

http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/index.php/membership

[Arda Takan]

Europeans are really good at these society things. I admire you.