Tulipa 2009

[Boyed]

Arda,

You're always wellcome to ask any questions.

I isolate from bees some of my tulip varieties, which are succeptible to virus (especially from Fringed group) to prevent spreading of virus by bees. My neighbour grows virus-infected tulips and keeps bees at the same time. So the bees transfer virus from his tulips to mine. Tulips, which have high resistance, don't suffer at all, but some cultivars such as FRT 'Burgundy Lace' and FRT 'Johann Gutenberg' suffer very much. When I isolate them, no plant gets infection, while 30% the others ( I mean the same cultivars) grown non-isolated catch the infection. I isolate tulips only for 2 weeks during flowering period, later I take away the cover.

I don't mind bees making hybrids, as I multiply my tulips vegetativley not by seeds. From seeds you can multiply wild tulips, but you need to wait for at least 4 to 8 years to grow the tulips to flowering size.

Sterile hybrids are my most favourites. They are aomong the most showy one, as they are normally twise as large as diploid cultivars and show maximum vigour. Usually the cultiavrs with chromosom number 2n=36 are sterile (most of the Darwin Hybrids, and some from other divisions as TT 'Dreaming Maid', SLG 'Maureen', SLG 'Menton', Greigii 'Bokhara', etc.). Diploid cultivars have chromosom number 2n=24 and most of them are fertile and set seeds. But it is possible to make sterile hybrids set seet by application of different artificial methods.

[Arda Takan]

Thank you so much for the information.

[Janis Ruksans]

Here pictures of T. greigii Evening Fire and Mountains Glory. Sorry, your request Zhirair came too late and I couldn't find fresh flowers, but basement design you can see.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Who can to help to identify this one? Can't remember such in my collection. It apeear on old Tulip bed but I can't remember such.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Few Tulip hybrids pictured today - from croses between vvedenskyi and greigii (02 - Seed parent vvedenskyi, 41 - Seed parent  greigii)
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some very nice ones there Janis !
I like S-02-9c best !
Thanks for showing !

[Armin]

They are all very nice, Janis

[fermi de Sousa]

Janis,
what a brilliant combination! I think T. vvedenskyi makes a wonderful seed parent - I must see if these two flower at the same time in our garden next September.
cheers
fermi

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis,
what a brilliant combination! I think T. vvedenskyi makes a wonderful seed parent - I must see if these two flower at the same time in our garden next September.
cheers
fermi

You can keep pollens for 2 monthes in dessicator (with silica-gel) in fridge. Vvedenskyi is late blooming but can be crossed with all large blooming species. I kept pollens of kaufmanniana, fosteriana up to blooming of vvedenskyi, greigii, micheliana, albertii bloome ~ bsame time.
Janis

[Armin]

Super images from everybody.

Early last week I've visited the first time the tulip land in Holland. I was lucky to see the peak of tulip, narcissus, hyacinth and muscari flowering season.

Botanical highlights for me were the visit of Hortus Bulborum garden near Limmen and Floratuin garden in Julianadorp.

http://www.hortus-bulborum.nl/eng/home-english.html
http://www.floratuin.com/

I've been kindly guided and accompanied by one forum member from The Netherlands.
Many thanks again to you Luit.

I'll start my introduction with a few tulip fields pictures around Noordwijkerhout and Julianadorp...

[Armin]

continued with Hortus Bulborum (HB) and Floratuin (FT).

The weather was quite cold with 9°C to 12°C and some rain showers...

[Armin]

The number of colors, species and cultivars I've seen is just awesome
I've focused only on tulipa species and cultivars. You get lost...

T.bakeri: flower going over and suffered from rain
T. bakeri -Lilac Wonder-: larger selection w/o a white ring
T. cretica: a dwarf species
T. primulina: another dwarf late flowering species
T. hageri -Red Cup- and -Splendens-: late flowering
T. humilis -Little Beauty-: dwarf and late flowering

[Armin]

Impressive the T. clusiana and its cultivars...

The tallest was T. clusiana cashmeriana with 60-70cm height.
The tiniest -Honky Tonk- and T. stellata with 20-25cm height.

[Arda Takan]

I want to show how colours of shirley change in 1 week with before-after photos =)

[Armin]

more T.clusiana cultivars...