Tulipa 2016

[Tony Willis]

Tulipa doerfleri which has proved very difficult to flower here. I now plant it at the bottom of a long tom pot which seems to help stop it splitting into numerous non flowering bulbs.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tony, Kurt Vickery advised me to plant this one right at the bottom of my deepest long tom pot.

[Tony Willis]

Tony, Kurt Vickery advised me to plant this one right at the bottom of my deepest long tom pot.

When I have seen it several times in the wild it was growing in ploughed fields and was clearly growing below the level of the plough. Before my last visit two years ago I had been told it was almost totally destroyed but when we arrived it was there in thousands.

[Roma]

Lovely picture, Tony.  Almost like a painting.

[johnralphcarpenter]

A few more flowering today:

Tulipa humilis 'Little Beauty'
Tulipa aleppensis
Tulipa clusiana f.cashmeriana.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulipa armena, Tulipa dubia, Tulipa vvedenski.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulipa dasystemon, Tulipa juliae, Tulipa urumiensis, Tulipa 'Abu Hassan'.

[David Nicholson]

You have a cracking collection Ralph

[johnralphcarpenter]

Thank you, David.

[johnralphcarpenter]

A few lost-label garden tulips.

[Regelian]

Ralph,
I inherited quite a few tulips in the garden, no labels, of course, but a few must be well over 30 years old and still surviving.  Certainly cultivars from the garden centre, but their tenacity in my wet climate makes them endearing.  One looks like Princes Irene, a classic beauty.

Great to see so many of your starting from seed.  I've tried this in the rockery, but some animal took the bulbs last Winter.  Guess pots are the way to go.  And on the balcony!

j.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Jamie, I have to confess that I have not raised my specie tulips from seed; I bought bulbs from Janis, Kurt Vickery and others. I do have some seedlings but not yet flowering size.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Went to the Tulip Festival at Pashley Manor in East Sussex yesterday. Masses of people despite being a week-day, and of course masses of tulips. Lovely house, part Tudor and with Boleyn connections, and part Queen Anne. House is not open to the public but the gardens are and are worth a visit in any season. Some pictures...

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