Tulipa 2010

[Janis Ruksans]

tulipa greigii, fosteriana, ?stapfii, ?vvendenskyi

Wrong order. The first is fosteriana, second greigii (my variety SUNSET). third - vvedenskyi and I think that last picture again vvedenskyi, but must see more.
Janis

[ArnoldT]

Interior view.

Arnold

[Ragged Robin]

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.

Zhirair, thank you for your photos of this very unusual coloured tulip base 'Nessy' with such an elegant shape open or closed, I love its originality

[Ragged Robin]

Interior view.

Arnold

Thanks Arnold, great photo with raindrop added bonus !  

[Ragged Robin]

This morning only buds showing - a couple of hours later, Tulipa tarda in full flower 

Closed again late afternoon ready for tomorrow's show - cant wait 

[Boyed]

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

Janis,
I also grow some other very beutiful tulips, bred by you, which you don't grow anymore. Among them gregii 'Love Disire' (not to be mixed with vvedenskyi x 'Love Disire' offered in Janis current catalogue), greigii x 'Dadzitis', fosteriana 'Vita', fosteriana 'Red Prince'. The last two I received from a grower from Khakasia, who obtained them from a person, who on its turn ordered tulips from you during Soviet period. The most happy thing was to see that he also grew L. Sidrevics fosteriana 'Sigulda', which I didn't hope to find nowadays.

[Lvandelft]

This week I made some pictures of tulips again in the Keukenhof Show Garden.
Most of them belong to the Triumph Group, which for me have the stature of tulips as I like them most.
So it's my personal choice.
First I show a picture of a small part of the park Keukenhof.
To make this I had to wait rather long before there were no other people
walking in front of my camera. (within 8 weeks about 800.000 visitors are going through this garden!)
The second is a view from the park over the bulb fields.
 
Keukenhof                       
Keukenhof view 

[Lvandelft]

Then to the tulips:
Tulipa  Couleur Cardinal 
Tulipa  Gwen 
Tulipa  National Velvet 1                 
Tulipa  National Velvet cl.
Tulipa  Survivor                       
Tulipa  Black Charm                       
Tulipa  Black Charm 2                       
Tulipa  Holland Queen 

[Lvandelft]

and some tulips of other groups:
Tulipa  La Mancha 1           
Tulipa  La Mancha cl.
Tulipa  Dreamship   
Tulipa  Lingerie
Tulipa All That Jazz 1                                   
Tulipa All That Jazz cl.   

[Lvandelft]

The last pictures show some examples of plantings with mixed tulips and other bulbs:               

Keukenhof Mixed bulbs   

[Maggi Young]

What a superb selection... and all pictured in lovely sunshine!
A friend from Aberdeen is hoping to travel next week to visit the Keukenhof while staying with a  friend near Amsterdam ....she has been looking forward to the trip for a long time.... but will the planes be flying?  

[Lvandelft]

What a superb selection... and all pictured in lovely sunshine!
A friend from Aberdeen is hoping to travel next week to visit the Keukenhof while staying with a  friend near Amsterdam ....she has been looking forward to the trip for a long time.... but will the planes be flying?  

Sunshine every day at the moment and for next week it should stay like that Maggi  , though frost early in the morning.

Well, if the planes are not flying.... I know some Belgian Forumists who take their rowing boat then 

If your friend comes here on Saturday, there is the great Flower Parade driving through the district and worth seeing it!

[PeterT]

tulipa greigii, fosteriana, ?stapfii, ?vvendenskyi

Wrong order. The first is fosteriana, second greigii (my variety SUNSET). third - vvedenskyi and I think that last picture again vvedenskyi, but must see more.
Janis

Thankyou Janis, that the one should be vvendenskyi is what I hoped, I have a larger form without the wavy leaf and I have sown seed of a smaller form, but I knew that I had bought another bulb of it to try to get this, I first saw it on the front of an old edition of an american rock garden journal. I shall be growing it with less food next year to try keeping it compact. here is tulipa stapfii as I have been growing it for a few years, again it is a bit tall, next to another of your greigiis,  ( I made a mistake with my last batch of compost) another picture of the ?stapfii also tulipa heweri which was given to me two years ago by a kind friend,  and also T cretica

[Janis Ruksans]

29 years old T.praestans today at short sun-break.
Janis

[Ragged Robin]

Janis, what a superb photographic celebration of such a lovely wild tulip - absolutely stunning in the sun