Tulipa 2010

[Janis Ruksans]

More bright multiflowering tulip of different style - Tulipa praestans, this bulb was collected in Hodji-obi-Garm (Tadjikistan) in 1981, since that time it is first occasion when it produces 3 flowers on stem, but no one offset got during those years.
Janis

[Armin]

Janis,
a very lovely tulip. A pity it does not reproduce.

[ArnoldT]

A long standing survivor here in New Jersey.

[Boyed]

Your tulipa ferganica is very nice, Arnold. I like the shape of flower of this species.
Thanks for showing.

[ArnoldT]

Boyed:

Thanks so much for the kind words.  The exterior of the petals change color as they age.  The tips recurve a bit as well.
Arnold

[Ragged Robin]

Arnold, does the depth of colour become more red on the outer petals as it ages? It's hard to see n the photo but I really like the tapered shape and colour of this tulip.

[Maggi Young]

Would T. ferganica , with these lovely acuminate petals, have been one of the parents used in making the  "lily-flowered" tulips?

[ArnoldT]

I think the color does indeed deepen as the flower ages.  I'll take another photo tomorrow and post it.

Maggi:  Not sure about the breeding of background of the lily flowered tulips.

Arnold

[Boyed]

Would T. ferganica , with these lovely acuminate petals, have been one of the parents used in making the  "lily-flowered" tulips?

The grand grand..... mother of lily-flowered tulips is an ancient tulip acuminata, on the basis of which tulipa retroflexa with lily-shaped bloom was raised. Then crossing tulipa retroflexa with Darwin tulips (now included in Single Late group) gave the birth to most lily-flowered tulips. Currently tulipa acuminata often also dirrectly used for breeding lily-shaped tulips, as well as tulipa fulgens, greigii and some others.  I don't know about tulipa ferganica, but it is quite possible.

Would like to show some photos of very beautiful kaufmanniana tulip with bright and colourful base 'Nessy', bred by Janis Ruksans. Very striking and impressive tulip, which brightens my soul every early spring. it was selected among the seedlings of tulipa kaufmanniana.

[Maggi Young]

Thank you, Zhirair, I thought you would be able to give me a clue!

Nessy is very different in her colouring....and seems robust.

[Boyed]

Maggi,

As a rule, 'Nessy' is not a robust tulip, but in my garden often many cultivars increase their sizes. Fore example, Lefeber greigii tulips, which normally get 50-55 cm tall, in my garden get 60 -75 cm in the forth day of blooming  (depending on the variety) under direct sun. It always surprises my foreign visitors.

[Lvandelft]

Would T. ferganica , with these lovely acuminate petals, have been one of the parents used in making the  "lily-flowered" tulips?

Maybe I can add some more information about Lily-flowered tulips.
In Holland the important breeding of tulips started after 1900.
J.F.Ch. Dix worked in his younger years at the Krelage nursery in Haarlem and started breeding Duc van Tol tulips with Darwin tulips, trying to get early flowering tulips with longer stems.
His second breeding program was trying to get lily-flowered tulips. Therefore he chose
T, retroflexa which was the only tulip with more or less bended petals he could find then.
In 1908 the cross T. retroflexa x Darwin tulip Psyche resulted in the pink lily-flowered Sirene, which received an AGM in 1914 in Holland, as well as in London!

[Janis Ruksans]

Can't list NESSY between my most vigorous tulips, I lost it by myself. Nice that someone still have this very nice tulip.
Don't think that T. ferganica could be included in some lily-flowering tulip pedigree - they are too far genetically.
Janis

[PeterT]

Two tulips in flower today which I got from Janis, and one which I think may have the wrong lable as it is not like my other stapfii, and one which has lost its lable, I should be glad of names or corrections
Peter

[PeterT]

tulipa greigii, fosteriana, ?stapfii, ?vvendenskyi