HORTUS BULBORUM or TREASURY OF HISTORIC BULBS

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Zhirair for these lovely pictures. I can see you are really addicted to tulips.

[Armin]

Luit,
what a color spectacle - superb!
I would be interested to visit this place next year...

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
what a color spectacle - superb!
I would be interested to visit this place next year...

You are welcome, Armin.
We decided already to go next year at least some weeks earlier and if time permits
another time too.

[Lvandelft]

Here some photo's of species tulips.
Behind the picture names the year of introduction as far as known.

Tulipa acuminata
Tulipa butkovii
Tulipa aucheriana 1883 Tulipa aximensis 1894     
Tulipa boadicea 1915                   
Tulipa ferganica Vved. 1935
Tulipa fulgens   
Tulipa orphanidea 1       
Tulipa orphanidea 2       
Tulipa linifolia Regel 1884   

[Lvandelft]

Tulipa hageri Splendens       
Tulipa iliensis 1879         
Tulipa tetraphylla 1 1875         
Tulipa maculata Globosa 
Tulipa orphanideo Flavo 1970           
Tulipa stellata                     
Tulipa tubergeniana Emir 1952             
 Tulipa gesneriana Spathulata   

[Armin]

Wunderful to see the wild tulips

[Maggi Young]

What stunning tulips these are.... the colours make me feel good just to look at them.

[Lesley Cox]

The species can still beat the hybrids hands down I believe. And T. linifolia is the BEST of all. I had a beautiful Greenwood painting of it once.

[Jim McKenney]

And by the way, I have something to consult with you. I found a very old coffee-brown tulip and wanted to show you the pics hoping that we can identify it. It survived in one of my collegue's garden from Soviet times. The colour is so strange that it is difficult to describe. The pics will come soon.

Zhirair, I can hardly wait to see that picture!

The "brown" tulips have long fascinated me. This year I grew 'Cairo' which in some light did look brown, especially in older flowers.

And wouldn't it be wonderful if your brown tulip turned out to be one of the famous old ones such as 'Cafe Brun', 'Clio' or 'Bronze Queen', 'Goudvink', 'Dom Pedro' or some other lost treasure.

I've attached two images of 'Cairo'; the color changes as the flower matures and the brown is most apparent (in our climate at least) in the oldest flowers. 

[Lvandelft]

Here are some "Breeder" tulips:

Tulipa Breeder T. [Engl] Gold Tears             
Tulipa Breeder T. Alcida 1916                 
Tulipa Breeder T. Copernicus 1916               
Tulipa Breeder T. Corinna 1929           
Tulipa Breeder T. Dom Pedro 1910           
Tulipa Breeder T. Jaune d' Oeuf 1863         
Tulipa Breeder T. Kathleen Truxton 1942                     
Tulipa Breeder T. Klopstock 1863             
Tulipa Breeder T. Pesident Hoover 1930               
Tulipa Breeder T. Prince of Wales 1863 

[Boyed]

Luit,

Oh, my God. I am in a shock by all this beauty. Finally I can see breeder tulip photos, which are so rare nowadays. I know I won’t be able to sleep today, continually thinking about these treasures. I especially impressed by “Dom Pedro” and “Prince of Wales” (rue brown tulips). I don’t understand why they are excluded from tulip register???

Jim, the brown tulip I found is browner than “Cairo”. Tulip “Louis XIV” is still alive. It is sold in Russia by a famous grower. I have been ordering it for more than 6 years continually, but is a blockbuster and sells out very quickly; and I still can’t get it. But I grow a fringed sport of it with the same colour, which is called “The Skipper”.

And as I told, I post the pics of that brown tulip. The colour is very difficult to describe; approximately it is pale coffee-brown with slight pink overlay. Studying the official descriptions in Tulip register and taking into account the base colour, I think that it might be the variety “Dido” from SLT Cottage group. I would ask Luit to show the photo of “Dido”, if possible.

[Boyed]

And here are the photos of fringed sport from "Lous XIV" - "The Skipper"

[Lvandelft]

Relax Zhirair, I have to work a little and send a few others a bit later.
This brown one is very special. I'll ask around a bit here.
I don't have T. Dido, but maybe you are happy with a picture of Louis XIV?

Tulipa SLG Louis XIV

[Boyed]

Luit,

Thanks a lot>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!!!

I am a bit surprised at the appearance of "Louis XIV". Is it its true colour? I supposed it to be paler, because as far as I know it has the same colour as its fringed sport "The Skipper".

[Lvandelft]

Zhirair, when you open the picture you'll see that it might be the same
colour.
The problem is with your pictures that they are in a mixed arrangement and often some stronger
colours like yellow will have influence on the other colours when taking a photo.
So your fringes are yellowish and the brown is not so clear.
And my picture was taken in full sun.