Tulipa 2019

[Hoy]

Anybody who knows this very small tulip in my lawn?

[ArnoldT]

Need to see the outside of the petals.

T. altaica comes to mind

[Steve Garvie]

Tulipa clusiana cashmeriana

[Yann]

it's perfection!

Tulipa ferganica, JR518 from Janis
Tulipa australis, macedonian form
Tulipa whittallii
Tulipa x 'Don Cossack'

[Janis Ruksans]

In garden is blooming hardiest of cyclamens - C. kusnetzovii from Crimea (territory of Ukraine at present occupied by Russia). Blooms many tulips - in early hours one of the best is Tulipa hissarica from Tajikistan (Hodji-obi-Garm, Varzob gorge). In afternoon flowers open Tulipa lownei (Israel) grown from seeds sent to me by my friend Oron Peri.
One of Kazakhstan's Tulipa biflora (most likely need other name) blooms unusually late for this group.
Tulipa orthopoda in greenhouse already finished, but blooms outside - in place where was deposited used soil from pots. Some seedlings escaped collecting (or were left as too small of for too large stock) and now beautifully blooms.

[Janis Ruksans]

In greenhouse starts blooming of red tulips. The first three represents 3 different gatherings of Tulipa micheliana - two are from Iran and one from former Soviet Central Asia.
Then Tulipa patens from Kazakhstan and as last Tulipa stapfii from Iran (got from Norman Stevens, Cambridge bulbs, UK).

[Yann]

with the drought many tulips burn in 2-3 days, i water them daily for a week....

Tulipa rubidusa

[Yann]

It's more and more dry, the tulips really suffer.

Here's Tulipa grengiolensis

[ArnoldT]

Tulipa altaica.

Has a much smaller flush of color on the petal than T. ferganica

[Roma]

A few tulips flowering now.  The first one Tulipa bakeri (I think) is in the garden.  I don't think I planted it.  Another escapee with used potting compost.  It used to be fairly well contained under a Salix lanata and surrounded by heathers but the heathers were removed a few years ago and I cut back the salix last year so it is now making a bid to cover a large area.

 



Tulipa aucheriana



Tulipa batalinii 'Bright Gem'



Tulipa 'Little Beauty'

[Janis Ruksans]

Tulips continue blooming with me, too. Fortunately weather became cooler so blooming will be a little longer. On the first picture T. corynestemon, collected at locus classicus in Kazakhstan.
On next orange form of Tulipa kolpakowskiana from Bishkek, Kirghizia.
Then Tulipa korolkowii 0066 - it took long time before I identified this gathering, looked so familiar, but it was not montana what it resembled at first look and growing very far from it.
Next is seedling of Tulipa kurdica pictured in garden - place where was deposited used pot-soil. Not all seedlings were collected, few escaped and now marvellously blooms in place where every one walks over...
And last - Tulipa montana from Iran.

[ArnoldT]

Tulipa ferganica

[Janis Ruksans]

In greenhouse blooms my last selections of tulips - all of them created around 40 years ago, when I intensively hybridized tulip species from Central Asia. The first picture  is selection from wild T. greigii named 'Love Desire', then two pictures are hybrid between T. vvedenskeyi and T. greigii named 'Sparkling Light', and the last two another hybrid between T. vvedenskeyi and T. greigii named 'Amberland'.

[ArnoldT]

Here's Tulipa ferganica on a break in the rain with some sunlight.

[Steve Garvie]

Tulipa vvedenskyi



Tulipa sp? -I would be grateful for any help in naming this plant. I have grown it for a number of years but have lost the label. I am sure I bought it as a species Tulip. It doesn’t clump up and is intolerant of any summer moisture. It has a large flower which opens widely in full sun.