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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #150 on: May 26, 2013, 04:26:50 PM »
Some pictures taken at Keukenhof
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #151 on: May 26, 2013, 09:16:29 PM »
Does anyone know of a stockist of Tulipa 'Big Smile' a stunning yellow?
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #152 on: June 14, 2013, 10:06:29 PM »
Tulipa sprengeri

Much better this year.  Last year there was so much rain and wind most of them got botrytis and did not look good.
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #153 on: June 17, 2013, 07:51:52 AM »
Does anyone know of a stockist of Tulipa 'Big Smile' a stunning yellow?

I have been growing this wonderful tulip for over 10 years. Indeed, it is a stunning one, having sturdy stems and huge blooms. It is an insterpecific hybrid, triploid, cross of SLG 'Mrs. John T. Scheepers' x eichlerii 'Excelsa'. It has a striped sport, called 'Rhapsody of Smiles'. One of its best feautures is high resistance to Tulip Breaking virus.

You can loot at ts photos in my web-site:

http://tulipdatabase.narod.ru/big_smile.html

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Zhirair, Tulip collector, bulb enthusiast
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #154 on: August 28, 2013, 08:13:44 AM »
Tulipa cretica is just waking up!
Hopefully they'll open with a bit of sun later in the week,
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #155 on: September 02, 2013, 04:13:32 AM »
Fully awake now!
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #156 on: September 02, 2013, 08:52:20 PM »
Almost as beautiful as the natural flower: an exquisite backgammon board made by the Turquoise Mountain workshop in Kabul. The wood has been inlaid with other woods and semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli to replicate (stylized) tulips.
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #157 on: September 03, 2013, 08:45:15 AM »
Frazer
they're exquiste - almost wish I could get interested in backgammon! ;D

here's a real tulip in flower in the rock garden,
Tulipa aitchisonii ssp clusioides, AKA Tulipa clusiana "dwarf form"
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #158 on: September 03, 2013, 11:28:20 AM »
Fully awake now!
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A glorious clump, Fermi !
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #159 on: September 10, 2013, 12:52:48 AM »
A glorious clump, Fermi !
Thanks, Luc,
here are a few more tulips in the garden
Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder' x2
Only different from Tulipa saxatilis by its less invasive habit!
Tulipa stapfii x 2

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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #160 on: September 10, 2013, 08:07:46 AM »
Tulipa tschimganica from Otto,
buds of Tulipa clusiana x2
Tulipa "the First" or 'Ancilla' - label lost by burrowing echidna >:(
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #161 on: September 10, 2013, 09:54:05 AM »
Fermi,
you have a fine collection of tulips - like the image of T. saxatilis.
It is one of the a very robust species for me without the need of annual lifting.
Best wishes
Armin

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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #162 on: September 10, 2013, 09:15:21 PM »
The Open Eye Gallery has an exhibition of  the suite of eight tulip prints from the portfolio Tulips and Tulipomania by Rory McEwen (1932-1982).


From the website :  "The volume of the same title by Wilfrid Blunt featuring 16 colour plates of paintings by McEwen, of tulips grown by members of the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society, will also be available to view.

The large format plates shown in this exhibition were printed in 1976 and are all individually signed by McEwen.  Wilfrid Blunt stated he was “perhaps the most gifted artist to pass through my hands”.  His ‘plant portraits’ are exquisite botanical recordings, combining science and art.


 Tulips : Bessie, Columbine, Habit de Noce, James Wild
            Julia Farnese, Mable, Helen Josephine, Sam Barlow - larger pix are available on the Open Eye website.

Rory McEwen was born in Scotland, and studied at Eton College and Cambridge University.  As well as a floral painter, he was a talented and influential folk musician.  McEwen’s mother Bridget Mary was the granddaughter of John Lindley, the botanist and illustrator who saved the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from demolition in 1840.  A major exhibition of McEwen’s works, The Colours of Reality runs this year at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew".
http://www.kew.org/about-kew/press-media/press-releases-kew/rory-mcewen-the-colours-of-reality.htm
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Re: Tulipa 2013
« Reply #163 on: September 16, 2013, 12:29:07 PM »
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« Reply #164 on: September 16, 2013, 05:11:49 PM »
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