tulipa

[Boyed]

Zhirair, Looking at all these wonderful tulips, I am reminded that I still haven't identified one of the species I saw on a visit to north-west Iran a few years ago and included in an article on another part of the Rock Garden Club's website, but I'll post it again below. Photographed NW of Lake Orumiyeh. I hope you can help me.

I suppose it is tulipa schrenkii

[Michael J Campbell]

could you tell me under which name the x Vvedenskii JR is to be found in the Ruksans' catalogue ?  I haven't got that one yet and I find it a very firy orange..

Luc, it is not in the catalogue as far as I know,I got it as a sub because the one I ordered was sold out. I think it is one of his new hybs. It was labeled as Vvedenskyii N.R. 13/2, that is all the information I have.
cheers

[hadacekf]

I hope someone can help with identifying the following two Tulipa. The first were given to me by a friend who collected it on a mountain near Pamukkale (Turkey). The second come from a Garden Center.

Tulipa sp. Turkey
Tulipa sp. Garden Centre

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Luc, it is not in the catalogue as far as I know,I got it as a sub because the one I ordered was sold out. I think it is one of his new hybs. It was labeled as Vvedenskyii N.R. 13/2, that is all the information I have.
cheers

Thanks Michael - Zhirair recognised it as "Amberland" and this does correspond with 13/2 in this year's catalogue.

Definitely one for my order ! 

[Boyed]

Franz,

The first looks like tulipa pulchella, the other red one is an interspecific hybrid (greigii*kaufmanniana), but I am not sure about the name.

Currently I have my tulipa kaufmanniana "Ugam" ("Ice Stick") in bloom, which gives me a great joy by its inigue appearance, somewhat resembling a type of a bird. It is the one of the few kaufmannianas I like and appriciate very much. In my garden it grows up to 45 cm. All my visitors are admired.

[I.S.]

   Franz your tulipes are impressive but I don't have any idea for name. I just checked from turkish plant data service I can not see any name as T. pulchella record. Is that a syn name for T. humilis?

[hadacekf]

Ibrahim, Zhirair

Thank you all together for the kind help.
T. pulchella is the  syn. name for T. humilis.

It looks not like Tulipa pulchella Zhirair, it is T. pulchella.
With the second tulip I thought also on a hybrid.
Zhirair, you have a wonderful bulb collection.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

More wonderful Tulips people ! Thanks a lot.

Here are two flowering with me at the moment :

1 - 2) Tulipa montana - stems quite a bit shorter compared to last year - (might the continuing chilly weather  be the reason )  They don't come much redder than this do they

3 - 4) Tulipa vvdenskyi x T. mogoltavica 'Girlfriend' - from Janis and shown earlier by Michael.

[Gerdk]

Luc,
Beautiful shots - I like the compact growth of T. montana. I am glad that I acquired 2 plants at the Snowdrop event in Oirlich.

Gerd

[hadacekf]

Tulipa praecox - A robust species of unknown wild origin. It has established itself in various mediterranean regions including my garden.

[Susan Band]

Beautiful Tulip Franz. The last picture is amazing, its like something you would see in an Art gallery
Susan

[Paul T]

Great tulips!!  Love that glorious red on the T. montana Luc. 

[Hans A.]

Luc and Franz - thanks for this wonderful photos - one thing is to grow this plants and the other to make such perfect pics.

[Jim McKenney]

Franz, thanks for posting the images of Tulipa praecox. It’s one of my favorite tulips, although it’s been years since I’ve had it in the garden.

The first image and the last image show Tulipa praecox as I know it. But the middle two images puzzle me. Are all four images from the same group of plants?

One distinguishing characteristic of Tulipa praecox, the difference between the length of the inner tepals (shorter) and the outer tepals (longer) shows up well in the first and fourth image. But the second and third images, perhaps because the flowers are mostly closed, do not seem to show that.

Also, the color of the two groups is not the same. In the first and fourth images I see the old  Morocco red of Tulipa praecox with its undertones of brown.  But the second and third images are a much brighter and different red. 

Isn’t Tulipa praecox a clone? Shouldn’t they all be very much alike?

In any case, wonderful images and thanks for posting them!

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments

Jim, NoTulipa praecox not a clone. The bulbs were collected at different places.
I have several groups of P. praecox in the garden. The photographs were taken on different days. Therefore the appearance and the colors can be not alike.
Let me know if you like this tulip.