Tulipa 2013

[johnralphcarpenter]

Thanks! Kurt Vickery is on the case!

[Boyed]

This may be of interest, :
http://www.skogoglandskap.no/filearchive/blyttia_201301tulipanorwegica.pdf

Ralph, Maggi,

Thanks for the link. It was very interesting for me and I studied the articles very carefully.
I should add that this tulip doesn't grow only in Norway. It survived in many gardens of the villages in Western Ukraine. I have a friend (tulip fellow) there and we always exchange pictures. He always visits the gardens of nearest to him villages and photographs the old tulips which survived from old times and grow without lifting for many years. They all behave like neo-tulips. Many such type of tulips survived in our local gardens in Armenia as well. Currently I grow over 25 neotulip-like domestic varieties, which are all very late bloomers and don't require lifting at all. They can grow without care even for 100 years, they don't produce seeds as well. I show one of the pictures of my Ukrainian friend, which he took this spring. It closely resembles tulipa norvegica. I am almost certain it is the same tulip.

[Boyed]

some more pix of ancient tulips my friend photographed this year in local gardens

[Maggi Young]

Hello Zhirair,
 I thought you would be able to comment on this matter.

Your friend's photos show some very robust  tulips- how wonderful that they are so long-lived.

[Boyed]

more with interesting coloration

[annew]

They are very beautiful, and remarkably strong - do any nurseries sell them?

[fermi de Sousa]

Flowering this week in the rock garden,
Tulipa albertii/vvedenskyi with Tulipa eichleri in the background,
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

This is the best flowering we've had on Tulipa aucheriana,
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Tulipa whitallii, which is "running" through part of the rock garden, but only setting one or two blooms! It may need to be "coralled"!
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

This is the tulip which has been in the trade in Australia for ages as T. hageri but Mark McD identified it as the hybrid between T.hageri and T. humilis, 'Little Princess', I think,
cheers
fermi

[Boyed]

They are very beautiful, and remarkably strong - do any nurseries sell them?

Anne,

Unfortunately, they are not offered in sale at all. The ones, I've shown, I am not sure are preserved even in Holland.

[fermi de Sousa]

Zhirair,
you need to avert your eyes as you won't like the pic I'm about to post!
This was a plain red lily-flowered tulip, I think, but it hasn't flowered for a couple of years; this year it has opened looking like something out of a Dutch Master's painting!
 A shame it has become virused as I really like the lily-flowered tulips!
cheers
fermi

[Boyed]

Fermi,

It means that you have virus in your garden. You should think of a source and destroy it.  Besides, you should avoid removing weeds during vegetation in tulip beds, as this is very often a reason of spreading virus mechanically. Weeds should be removed in autumn or in early spring when the spouts start to appear.

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks for the advice, Zhirair, fortunately this one is not close to other tulips.
Some good news, now.
I got this tulip more than 10 years ago and it has finally flowered again!
I got it as  Tulipa hageri "Splendens" and it certainly is splendid to have it bloom again; it multiplies well but previously the buds have aborting before opening, so this year must've seen all its requirements met.
It's growing through a carpet of Oxalis flava!
cheers
fermi

[Boyed]

Thanks for the advice, Zhirair, fortunately this one is not close to other tulips.

Fermi,

It doesn't that much matter that if it grows far from other tulips or not. I meant that main virus preaders are rather we humans (our hands, instruments and shoes) than insects, during working in the garden (removing weeds and touching the plants and making mechanical damages), by stepping accidentally on the plants leaves, etc.