Connoisseur Collection

[David Nicholson]

Great shots Luit, your time is much appreciated.

[Lvandelft]

his dentist has helped him, in part with the use of a cuddly gorilla and contortions 

Poor Fred! Sounds like a new version of your famous Highland Games.    .....

I'm glad he feeling a bit better now.
My last posting started quick, but took so long that I thought: no pictures from me anymore.   

Here some tulips of the Triumph Group:

Tulipa Tr. Festival               
Tulipa Tr. Gr. Early Glory               
Tulipa Tr. Gr. Vermillion Brilliant  H.v.Dr. '06                 
Tulipa Triumph Group Commodore                 
Tulipa Triumph Group Coquette
Tulipa Triumph Group Lunik                         
Tulipa Triumph Group Denmark H.v.Dr. '06   
Tulipa Triumph Group Carreria H.v.Dr. 02 
Tulipa Tr. Gr. Menuet  H.v.Dr. '02
Tulipa Triumph Group Madame Curie

[Susan Band]

I can not imagine how the connoisseur manages to lift the bulbs and keep them all sorted until they are ready to plant again. It must be some work. I hope a mouse never gets amongst them and redistributes them amongst the containers or worst of all eats them. Great selection of pictures as usual
Susan

[annew]

Yes, the photos do repay enlargement - you can see all the detail and subtle colour combinations.

[Lvandelft]

And:
Tulipa Triumph Group Purple Prince                           
Tulipa Triumph Group Zarewitch     
Tulipa Triumph Group Rambo H.v.Dr. '02     
Tulipa kaufmanniana Hybr. Daylight     
Tulipa kaufmanniana Hybr. Golden Daylight Lentefl. '93   
Tulipa kaufmanniana Hybr. Heemstede G.Mantel '94
Tulipa DLT Gold Medal                 
Tulipa DL Group Red Leader H.v.Dr. '02     
Tulipa DLT Hoangho         
Tulipa fosteriana Hit Parade

[Lvandelft]

I can not imagine how the connoisseur manages to lift the bulbs and keep them all sorted until they are ready to plant again. It must be some work. I hope a mouse never gets amongst them and redistributes them amongst the containers or worst of all eats them. Great selection of pictures as usual
Susan

Susan, I hope to show some pictures in summer when the bulbs are lifted etc.
It is really hard work, yes.
Last week mice were noticed near the tulipbeds, which normally never happens.
Some poisoned wheat is the only remedy.

And some more pics
I found the T. vvedenskyi types suffered more from hard frosts than many others.

Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Charlie Kunz  
Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Orange Brilliant    
Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Gold Beater    
Tulipa fosteriana Hybr. Feu Superbe                    
Tulipa vvedenskyi  x13..2  J.R. '02              
Tulipa vvedenskyi  x7..4  J.R. '02    
Tulipa vvedenskyi  x Latvian Gold  J.R. '02  
Tulipa ingens  
Tulipa vvedenskyi  x Girlfriend  J.R. '99
Tulipa vvedenskyi  x Lady Guna  J.R. 2000  

[Jim McKenney]

Great pictures, Luit.

I've been growing tulips all my life, and I'm seeing names here I don't recognize. That means there is a lot more to look forward to. 

Tulipa ingens is blooming today in my garden.

[Boyed]

Luit,

A special and great thanks to you for your wonderful and very very useful work!!! I always unpaciently wait for your new tulip photos and get a great pleasure out of watching them. Though most of the cultivars are familliar to me, but I haven't seen the photos of many nice varieties; and with your help I make an idea about them.
And thanks for mentioning about the differences of hybrids and groups. I haven't thought about that nuance before when looking at the names.

[Paul T]

Luit,

Stunning pictures, as you always have.  So very many different Tulips there, and I think I recognise about one name amongst the lot of them.    Beautiful!!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to process all these pics for posting here. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Luit,

never seen such a lot of fine tulipa-pics. Now I know, that there are some other good bulbs, not only galanthus

[Lvandelft]

Hello Luit,

never seen such a lot of fine tulipa-pics. Now I know, that there are some other good bulbs, not only galanthus

Hagen, that's a sort of a confession, isn't it? But I am glad you like them!
There are coming more soon.

[Maggi Young]

Hello Luit,

never seen such a lot of fine tulipa-pics. Now I know, that there are some other good bulbs, not only galanthus

Luit, this is wonderful, you are helping Hagen with his white fever treatment 
Hagen, my congratulations on this breakthrough for you! 
It has been a sunny day here in Aberdeen and I have seen quite a lot of bright bulb flowers in the nearby gardens though they would not add up to a thousandth of the connoiseur collection even if they were all together!

[Lvandelft]

When I came yesterday to the field I would take some Narcissus pictures,but I didn’t know where to start.
So here only two pics of the flowering beds from both sides.
Today was a strong N.E. wind and about 7 C. so no chancre to make pics of Narcissus.

Narcissus beds 1   
Narcissus beds 2   

With tulips it was more overseeable, so first some Triumph Tulipa

Tulipa Tr.T. Anneke   
Tulipa Tr.T. Apollo   
Tulipa Tr.T. Flyer           
Tulipa Tr.T. Invasion     
Tulipa Tr.T. Furand H.v.Dr. '94         
Tulipa Tr.T. Inzell                 
Tulipa Tr.T. Karlskrona 
Tulipa Tr.T. Lustella 

[Lvandelft]

Tulipa Tr.T. Lydia                 
Tulipa Tr.T. Red Lion   
Tulipa Tr.T. Levant   
Tulipa Tr.T. Orange Monarch   
Tulipa Tr.T. Passionale K+M. '94
Tulipa Tr.T. Paul Richter 
Tulipa Tr.T. Ruby Laser 1               
Tulipa Tr.T. Telemark     
Tulipa Tr.T. Tosca H.v.Dr. '94   
Tulipa Tr.T. Negrita   

[Lvandelft]

Tulipa Tr.T. Red Lips 
Tulipa Tr.T. Stargazer  '92
Tulipa Tr.T. White Ideal     
Tulipa Tr.T. Yellow Wonder     
Tulipa Tr.T. Red Pepper                 

and the first of Lily flowered Group

Tulipa Lily Flow. Group Pieter de Leur H.v.Dr. '02                                         

and a few early Parrot Tulips:

Tulipa Parr. Group Parrot Inzell H.v.Dr. '06
Tulipa Parr. Group Top Parrot H.v.Dr. '02 

Tulipa German Flag 

Tulipa praestans x batalinii Fireball H.v.Dr. ‘04