Tulipa 2009

[Paul T]

Janis,

That praestans is a stunner.  26 years and still not an offset!!  Amazing.

[Gerry Webster]

Janis - the wild T. praestans is superb. What a pity it does not increase.

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more tulips from today (of course in greenhouse)
Tulipa humilis white form collected last spring in Iran (WHIR-110) without flowers. Nice surprise, I think I read somewhere that white forms not more found in wild.
Another - Tulipa fosteriana from Agalik about which I wrote in previous entry, possibly wild hybrid with greigii or mutation with slightly purple shaded leaves. It never gave any offset and is growing with me 30th year.
Janis

[Sinchets]

A wild Tulip as seen in the Peloponnese- any ideas as to its id?

[Armin]

Simon,
I'm not sure  - but it looks like a form of T. orphanidea to me.
Any other suggestions?

Thomas,
thanks for the explanations. Hortus Bulborum is a place I still want to visit.

T. sylvestris is shy in flowering if not appropriate place. I've placed mine in a south sided rose bed in the sunniest place available. I don't lift them, don't disturb and feed them a commercial organic fertilizer for roses (Rosendünger) and give an extra portion of lime (Dolomitkalk). Please call me Armin

Gerd,
thank you. I'm happy with my T. sylvestris

Janis,
beautiful wild Tulips you show us. I like the T. berkariense "Morning Star".
Is T. berkariense hardy enough for outside?

[Armin]

Easter sunday we got 27°C warm   
Can't remember such temperatures early in April

A pity that many bulb flowers fade over quickly 

But some just waited for the sun!
 

[Janis Ruksans]

For Simon
Picture of Tulipa Red Lighthouse - it is fostreriana hybrid raised by me
and another clone of T. berkariense - Little Ilze
About berkariense - it is growable outside but there is one problem - it makes very long (up to 37 cm) side growing stolones. So now I'm growing it only in pots or box. Both clones (Little Ilze and Morning Star) were collected Kara-Tau mountains, Ber-kara gorge in 1984 or a pair years before. In nature it grows in shaded spots, mostly in shrubs, makes small round bulbs but blooms even bulbs 10 mm in diameter. Never had larger than 15 mm in diameter.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Few other pictures for Simon
Janis

[Sinchets]

Thanks Armin, Tulipa orphanidea sounds good to me. We hope to get seed one day if the timing is right.
Thanks Janis, your pictures here are a geat reference source for when my other mixed up tulips flower.

[Gerry Webster]

Simon,
I'm not sure  - but it looks like a form of T. orphanidea to me.
Any other suggestions?

Simon , Armin - I'm no expert on tulips but my first thought, based on the form of the flower, was also T. orphanidea. But Mathew states that this sp has dark anthers  & my own plants certainly do. However, it is also said to hybridise with T. sylvestris where the two grow close together producing yellow-orange forms. So, T. orphanidea or a hybrid of this?

Edit: I have just checked in Grey-Wilson & Mathew.  They state that T. orphanidea does not grow in the Peloponnese but the  similar T. goulimyi  does -  in  S Peloponnese.








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[Sinchets]

Thanks Gerry for your input. I'll have a google and see if I can find any pics of T.goulimyi for comparison.

[Armin]

Gerry,
you are right regarding the dark pollen of T.orphanidea and it could be possibly a hybrid with T. sylvestris. This could explain the yellow pollen and the slimer flower pedals.

On the other hand couldn't it be simply a form of T. orphinidea var. flava? This is natural very variable.

Nevertheless, Simon, a nice one!

[Sinchets]

I agree Armin- a very nice Tulip- but more thanks should go to Mother Nature for its creation and Chris for finding it, while I was still drooling over the Leontice

[Armin]

For Simon
Picture of Tulipa Red Lighthouse - it is fostreriana hybrid raised by me
and another clone of T. berkariense - Little Ilze
About berkariense - it is growable outside but there is one problem - it makes very long (up to 37 cm) side growing stolones. So now I'm growing it only in pots or box. Both clones (Little Ilze and Morning Star) were collected Kara-Tau mountains, Ber-kara gorge in 1984 or a pair years before. In nature it grows in shaded spots, mostly in shrubs, makes small round bulbs but blooms even bulbs 10 mm in diameter. Never had larger than 15 mm in diameter.
Janis

Janis,
thank you for the explanations for T. berkariense.
Tulipa fosteriana hybrid "Red Lighthouse" certainly makes a big fireworks in an garden. Lovely.

[Gerdk]

Only one Tulip to add here

T. altaica

Gerd