tulipa

[David Nicholson]

I look forward to your English version Zhirair, will you please let us know as soon as it is available.

[Armin]

Dominique,

Tulips are my passion and I've been growing these wonderful flowers for over 15 years. My collection counts around 250 cultivars from different divisions. You can have a look at my website:
www.vintagetulips.narod.ru

The English version will be ready in near future but so far you can study the Russion version with the help of Altavista stanslator.

Zhirair,
you have a great tulip collection! I think it will be a enrichment if your web site is available in English,too.
However, until then - please do not hesitate to post your tulip species on the forum!
It is an exiting outlook.
brgds

[dominique]

Hi Zhirair,
I am glad to see an other  tulip's lover. These plants are fabulous and give a good time after Narcissus, even some species flower together. The last one, Tulipa sprengeri flowers until the begin of june and T. polychroma since february for the botanic species. I wait the season to see your pics of them. Friendly

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow Zhirair !
What a site - I don't understand a word - but saw some images that look verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry promising.  I'll also avidly await the English version before exploring the site in full depth - I don't want to miss anything. 

[Thomas Huber]

Well done, Zhirair!
Please send a short note, when you've finished the English version!

[Boyed]

Guys, thanks a lot for compliments. There is a some workl letf to be done for the Russian version, and then I'll get into the English one. Even the gallery part is not finished yet and the most georgious pics are not yet posted. Of course, I will let you know is soon as the English version is ready.  My most favourite tulip is tulipa Greigii and its cultivars, which knock me out by its magical beauty; and lately I am mainly concentrted in getting its varieties, especially of D.W. Lefeber's introduction. Among the species, I like tulipa clusiana varieties most of all, which have a special beutiful shape. My interest also gows to Dutch non-commercial tulips, non-dutch (Japanies, Latvian, Chzes and Soviet tulips).
Here a couple of pisc of some oddball  Latvian-bred tulip varieties (the green one is bred by V. Scuja, which has twisted pistils and is multiflowering at the same time, the other one is selection of another Latvian breeder J. Egle with near black flowers.

[Maggi Young]

Oh my goodness, that 'melnupe' pic is like an old painting, how pretty!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Here's Tulipa pulchella violacea pushing through (1 & 2)
+ red dwarf tulip of wich the name was lost decades ago  - still pretty and always the first to flower.

[Armin]

Luc,
very nice - but are they flower in the coldhouse or outside?
If outside - I will believe in global warming...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You'd better believe in global warming Armin  - this is definitely outside in the garden...

[Diane Whitehead]

A friend here in Canada, who breeds striped auriculas (Primula)
and flies over to auricula meetings in the U.K., somehow managed
to join a British society of old tulips.  She received a collection of
old tulips as part of her membership.  I don't have any photos of
them, but I think they are mostly striped.
It is the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society,
founded in 1836.  One of the old tulips they grow is from about
1790.  http://www.johnwdesigns.co.uk/tulip/index_Page336.htm

[Armin]

You'd better believe in global warming Armin  - this is definitely outside in the garden...

Oh Jesus! Tulips outside flowering in February...
Most of my own tulips have first leaves out but no buds visible yet.
Seem to be still in normal schedule...

[dominique]

Here's Tulipa pulchella violacea pushing through (1 & 2)
+ red dwarf tulip of wich the name was lost decades ago  - still pretty and always the first to flower.

Luc,
Your tulip seems an hybrid of Tulipa kaufmanniana named 'Showwinner. The marks on the leaves show that it has Tulipa greigii in its genes. Showwinner is always one of the first kaufmanniana to flower.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks Dominque !
I didn't have the faintest idea - bought them in a garden center long before I got really "hooked" 

[Boyed]

Diane Whitehead,

Many among those striped old tulips are virus-infected. So your friend should rather grow them far away from other varieties to somehow avoid spreading of virus