Connoisseur Collection

[Lvandelft]

and another few old Narcissi:

Narcissus DIV  4 Orange Phoenix pré 1731 J. Penn. '03 1
Narcissus DIV  4 Orange Phoenix pré 1731 J. Penn. '03
Narcissus DIV  4 Twink

Tulipa Evt. Flair 1
Tulipa Evt. Ruby Red
Tulipa Evt. Mon Tresor
Tulipa Evt. Vermilion Brilliant
Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Pinkeen
Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Pirand
   (which is a mutation of Pinkeen)

[Paul T]

Luit,

Love the leaves on the greigii tulips.  The striping is always so cool.  The flowers aren't bad either  , particularly that first one you posted.

[Lvandelft]

Narcissus DIV  4 Blushing Maiden  R.A.Sc. '95
Narcissus DIV  4 Fossie R.A.Sc. '05
Narcissus DIV 2 Leonardo da Vinci  H. Kü. '07

and some more T. greigii hybrids:

Tulipa greigii Hybr. Sylvia Warder   
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Fresco
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Mary Ann
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Early Dream
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Pinocchio
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Lovely Surprise 1
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Lovely Surprise 2

[Susan Band]

Luit,
I remember going to see someone in Latvia, Martin I think his name was? He had a collection of 990 Dwarf Tulips mostly greigii hybrids. Unfortunatly we were about 10 days too early and only 1 or 2 were flowering, he had quite a few which amazing leaves. They were spotted more than stripped, are there some like this in the connoisseur Collection?

[Lvandelft]

Susan, I'll try to remember next week and have a look, because I'll be away for
several days.

Here are the last ones for this week:

Tulip bed 
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Gala Premiere
Tulipa kaufmanniana Fritz Kreisler
Tulipa kaufmanniana Scarlet Baby
Tulipa kaufmanniana Group Whisper
Tulipa Triumph Group Burning Love
Tulipa vvedenski  x 156  J.R. ‘02
Tulipa fosteriana Group Gold Flash

and a Narcissus of almost 300 years in culture:

Narcissus DIV  4 Orange Phoenix  pré 1731 J. Penn. '03 1 
Narcissus DIV  4 Orange Phoenix  pré 1731 J. Penn. '03 2

[Boyed]

Gerdk,

an advise for you: when dead-heading, don't forget to sterilize the instrument (if you're going to do it this way) in order not to transfer viruses. To ovoid this problem that's the way I do it:
I make many small peaces of sheets out of a magazine and with each peace I dead-head only one flower-head, so that my hands doesn't touch the stem.

Susan, pleased to hear that you visited Martins. He is very famous tulip grower in Latvia, having the largest collection of these flowers in his country. Among them are many Larvian-bred tulips, not familliar in Holland.

[Boyed]

Luit,

again thanks a lot for these wonderful photos. I especially appriciate pics of 'Melodie d' Amour', 'Lovely Surprise' and 'Gala Premierre'. 'Gala Premierre' is now very rare, but is is famous by its exceptional beauty. So I hope you'll show more of it when it matures and gets its whole typical features.

The yellow edge in your pics of 'Melodie d amour' is more prominant, than in mines. Maybe it widens as the flowers mature. I'll see.

[Armin]

Is T. greigii Mother Theresa as selection of the wild form or a hybrid?

[Gerard Oud]

Very nice tulips Luit, and for Susan, here in holland we growers have a saying, that if i translate it well it says, flow costs grow.

[Susan Band]

Gerard,
I don't think I know what you mean by that saying.

[Gerard Oud]

Maybe flow takes grow is a better translation. Letting the flower in full flow and set seed it reduces the growth of the bulb.

[Susan Band]

Thanks Gerard,
I was following the example of the Dutch by removing the flowers, after all your country has been growing bulbs for a little while
Susan

[Gerard Oud]

Don't underestimate your country Susan, some bulbs are grown for a longer time in Brittain!
We only did tulips in the early 1600's.
The first tulipflowers have been cut last week, but those plants have been forced under a plastic cover.
But cutting the flower is for tulips a good remedie to get bigger bulbs, some even do the same with snowdrops but that does not work.

[mark smyth]

Are all those kaufmanniana and greigii Tulips freely available? There are many I would like to own

[Boyed]

Mark,
I would say not all. There are around 10-15 varieties from each group circling in trade, the others are relatively harder to get. The thing is that they are not very suitable for commmercial mechanical growing (planting and harvesting), take a special care comparing to others and some have lower rate of propagation.