Tulipa 2020

[Yann]

I tried cashmeriana in the garden except slugs no one saw the flowers 
The last one is magnificent!!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Tulipa cretica planted in the greenhouse's shade

I cannot keep them outside Yann, tried it a few times in the past but they froze and lost them... obviously that was at the time when we still had winters...

Two wonderful reds you showed as well !

In flower here is the magic Tulipa vvednskyi x mogoltavica 'Girfriend' - changes from yellow to red as the flower ages.  A cross from Janis many moons ago.
All pictures are from the same group.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice Luc and Yann!

Some more Tulips here:

Superb pix and dito tulips Steve !  Sensational !

Do you have a secret to grow Tulipa humilis Alba Caerulea Oculata and KEEP it alive I tried it several times in the garden and in pots, always without positive results.  Flowering the first year, smaller bulbs and no flowers the second year and gone the next... ??

The first flower on the scarlet red Tulipa montana, just about as red as it gets I guess !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Another favourite : Tulipa kurdica

and my shortest Tulipa Cretica from Vatos, hardly 10 cm high.

[Yann]

I cannot keep them outside Yann, tried it a few times in the past but they froze and lost them... obviously that was at the time when we still had winters...

protected from winter by....plastic boxes returned, cheap and dirty method but it works.

[Steve Garvie]

Superb pix and dito tulips Steve !  Sensational !

Do you have a secret to grow Tulipa humilis Alba Caerulea Oculata and KEEP it alive I tried it several times in the garden and in pots, always without positive results.  Flowering the first year, smaller bulbs and no flowers the second year and gone the next... ??

Sorry Luc, I have had the same experience as you.
It is mass-produced in the bulb trade so hopefully someone knows the secret and can share it here.   

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulipa tarda Khirghizia

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulipa lemmersii

[johnralphcarpenter]

Tulipa kaufmanniana ARJA-9748

[Yann]

Ah Ralph's pots are awake, my tarda doesn't have such yellow shape where did you get it?

Tulipa x Don Cossack, it set seeds all around, i digged many 1-1.5cm bulbils all around and it's also very generous when seeds pods explode.

[Erwinia]

A fine red Tulipa zenaidae

[johnralphcarpenter]

Ah Ralph's pots are awake, my tarda doesn't have such yellow shape where did you get it?

Tulipa x Don Cossack, it set seeds all around, i digged many 1-1.5cm bulbils all around and it's also very generous when seeds pods explode.

I got it from Janis, Yann

[Gail]

Tulipa sylvestris

[Stan da Prato]

Sorry Luc, I have had the same experience as you.
It is mass-produced in the bulb trade so hopefully someone knows the secret and can share it here.   

Yes - compare the snap of a pot planted last autumn with one from 2017. I presumed  as I have my  bulbs  outside   some will get too wet in our summers. It's  well known that large  bedding  tulips don't do well in later years  as the bulb splits into small ones. We need someone who knows the bulb trade to enlighten us further.

[David Nicholson]

Tulipa 'Taco'