Tulipa 2014

[wmel]

some tulips from holland.........

[wmel]

and some more...

[johnralphcarpenter]

A couple from Antoine Hoog via Kevock. Tulipa ferganica and Tulipa didieri.

[Vincent26]

Back from Creta after a 3 weeks trip ... with many pictures of course !
I saw 4 of the 5 tulip species of the island, I was just to late for T goulimyi, may be next time
First, Tulipa bakeri at Omalos, near Samaria gorge.

[ArnoldT]

Here's an unknown which appeared just in front of the compost pile under heavy shade from a European beech tree.

Note the thin red line.

And

Tulipa altaica

[Vincent26]

T doerfleri at Giou Campos (Creta).
After studiing neotulips in France, with only few plants for each species (2 for T didieri !) it's very nice to see such tulip's fields in wild !

[Boyed]

some tulips from holland.........

Wietse, I wonder how you controle virus in such large fields for such cosiderable amount of tulips. What persent of infected plants you encounter annually within a virus succeptable variety ( I mean in general)?

[Leena]

Tulipa 'Girlfriend', planted two years ago and it has doubled from last year. Maybe I should divide it this year?

[ArnoldT]

This one just keeps coming back.

Tulipa ferganica

[Vincent26]

Tulipa saxatilis above Spili, Crete. Juste after a storm ... I was lucky to find some flowers left.

[Vincent26]

And the latest, in the garden, Tulipa norvegica also called Tulipa ×gesneriana
‘Pilot

[Boyed]

And the latest, in the garden, Tulipa norvegica also called Tulipa ×gesneriana
‘Pilot
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Vincent,
Where did you get your norvegica?

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes, I'd like to get hold of that one too!

[mark smyth]

I bought 4 different Tulipa batalinii cultivars last autumn. Three are the same  and one doesn't look like T. batalinii

Is this 'Salmon Jewel'?

[wmel]

Wietse, I wonder how you controle virus in such large fields for such cosiderable amount of tulips. What persent of infected plants you encounter annually within a virus succeptable variety ( I mean in general)?

Hello,

Of course we try to remove all the virus diseased plants from the field. Every year This works in one tulip better than in the other. , for an easy species, each year about 0.05% to 0.1% is sick. in the difficult tulips (yellow, "black" and white), 0.5% to 3% sometimes is sick!.

How are your alliums doing??