Tulipa 2015

[Menai]

When clearing the foliage from a pot of mixed garden tulips I found that one, I think Madonna, had produced daughter bulbs at the base of the 1st leaf. I have never seen this before. Is it common? Does it say anything about the parentage of the variety?

Erle in Anglesey
Garden still recovering from Monday gale!

[Tulipaholic]

Hello Erle

 Axil bulbs are normal in some cultivars as in the leaf axils are sleeping buds, sometimes they grow out to bulbs
in other cases to a second flowerstem.

Sjaak de Groot

[Menai]

Thank you Sjaak. There's always something new to learn.

Erle

[Roma]

Tulip time here again

Tulipa sprengeri -can you have too much of a good thing?  I can't see anything else growing there and can't get in to pull out the weeds without standing on the tulips

[Maggi Young]

Impossible to have too much of that thing, Roma!  I've said it before and I will say it again - your spread of Tulipa sprengeri is one of the loveliest displays I can imagine.

[Leena]

How wonderful show! I can't wait for my one year old seedlings to reach the flowering size, but hopefully some day they will also flower here. Some of the seeds were from the seed exchange, perhaps they were from your garden?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Tulip time here again

Tulipa sprengeri -can you have too much of a good thing?  I can't see anything else growing there and can't get in to pull out the weeds without standing on the tulips

Superb, Roma !!!  Great view !!

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Last year I found the first tiny flower on Tulipa orthopoda grown from AGS Seedex 2003 - this year there are 2 tiny flowers!
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Tulipa cretica in the rock garden
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Tulipa stapfi has enjoyed life and has multiplied from a single bulb 2 years ago!
"Concerto" (not apparently true to name) is still a singleton,
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Tulipa clusiana continues to march across the rock garden in its quest for world domination!
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Tulipa ferganica group (often sold in Australia as T.kolpakowskiana)
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[Rogan]

Very nice, Fermi. Tulips are something seldom seen or spoken about in this country; I think the "florist" varieties are sill imported for planting in the cooler regions of SA as "once off" colour in early spring. I have a few pots of young T. linifolia seedlings which I hope will flower, someday, before I'm much older and greyer! 

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Good luck, Rogan - tulips from seed do take patience!
Here are some more in our garden:
Tulipa montana x2
Tulipa 'Little Princess'
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Tulipa vvedenskyi 'Tangerine Dream'
Tulipa'Cape Cod'
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