Tulipa 2013

[wmel]

No Tulipa species, but al seedlings from tulipa gesneriana......

[Boyed]

1. Skif
2. Kamennyj Tzvetok
3. Dzeltene Lilija
4. Ballade Orange
5. Ballade and its colourful sports
6. Аxinia



and more

1. Smetana (giant tulip')
2. Louis XIV
3. Bronze King Кинг
4. Bacchus
5. Fulton
6. Arthur Rubinstein
7. ancient brown gesneriana tulip

[Maggi Young]

For some reason, Boyed's photos do not enlarge, nor do the links beneath them lead to an available page - I am not sure why this is so - we must be content with viewing the thumbnails pix.

MANY THANKS to Jef  for his solution to the problem - all fixed now, I think!
Great to be able to enjoy the photos at their best.

[Jozef Lemmens]

N.B. re above post:

For some reason, Boyed's photos do not enlarge, nor do the links beneath them lead to an available page - I am not sure why this is so - we must be content with viewing the thumbnails pix.

Maggi, try to remove  "http//   and    "   at the end       (or www."http.com//  ) 

[Gerry Webster]

Yes, this works.

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Jozef, this has solved the problem - I am VERY grateful to you for your help 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Just back from Canada to find this in flower - Tulipa didieri (another of Dutch origin).

[Maggi Young]

Ralph, sending you a message about seed.......

[Boyed]

For some reason, Boyed's photos do not enlarge, nor do the links beneath them lead to an available page - I am not sure why this is so - we must be content with viewing the thumbnails pix.

MANY THANKS to Jef  for his solution to the problem - all fixed now, I think!
Great to be able to enjoy the photos at their best.

Maggi,

Maybe here the web-site where I uploaded pictures, is not supported. I posted the same pix in the Russian forum and everything worked O.K. Yesterday I noticed that here the pictures don't enlarge.

[Lvandelft]

Some nice (old) tulips there, Zhirair! I like the form and colours of Skif and  Kamennyj Tzvetok 

[johnralphcarpenter]

I didn't know that wild tulips grew in North America, but apparently Tulipa sylvestris can be found in Ontario and some of the New England states in the US. Here it is growing on the Niagara escarpment in Waterdown, near Hamilton Ontario.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Ottawa Tulip Festival

The Canadian Tulip Festival is a tulip festival, held annually in May in Ottawa, Canada. The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips, with attendance of over 500,000 visitors annually. Large displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, and the largest display of tulips is found in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.

In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered Princess Juliana and her daughters for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, in the Second World War. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet to Princess Juliana at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The maternity ward was declared to be officially a temporary part of international territory, so that she would be born in no country and would inherit only her Dutch citizenship from her mother. In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.

While the Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000 from the Royal Family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association), by 1963 the festival featured more than 2 million, and today sees nearly 3 million tulips purchased from Dutch and Canadian distributors.

[johnralphcarpenter]

A few more Tulips flowering here, despite the dull weather: Tulipa saxatilis Hort., Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder', and a rather washed-out looking Tulipa acuminata (all of Dutch origin).

[johnralphcarpenter]

Probably the last two to flower this year: Tulipa batalinii (Dutch origin) and Tulipa butkowii from Janis.

[FrazerHenderson]

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