Tulipa 2010

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Gill, nice to meet you!

How hard is it to keep those omniverous goats out of the garden? Those beasts are both hungry and clever.... must be a bit of a problem?  



Janis, good to hear you have found a method of increase.

[goatshed]

Thanks Maggi
As long as the electric fence battery is charged it's no problem. When they do escape they head straight for the veggie patch (once ours, and once our neighbour's - but he's very understanding!)
I had two pet sheep once and they were much worse - they escaped once and head straight for the tulips and bit the flower heads off.

[Boyed]

true tulipa greigii 'Jackie'.
A wild vegetatively increasing clone, selected by Kyrgisian grower Sidorzhenko. Introduced in Latvia by famous botanist A. Verins. A real show-stopper that can beautify and brighten every garden.

[Maggi Young]

Zhirair: 'Jackie' is a very beautiful tulip; the close up photo of the interior is delicious!

Gill, I sympathise.... we had horses which , on the the two occasions they escaped, made straight for the garden of the minister of the local church and ate his prize roses. They could have stopped in any one of several dozen gardens en route to the manse garden, but no, they wanted those particular roses.... then there was Hissing Sid the tortoise.... he could scramble over two foot fences at the bottom of thick hedges to get to next door's veggies.  hedges.



The showers of hail which we have had in the last few days  have marked nearly all our tulip flowers 

[Janis Ruksans]

minor corrections
correctly SUDORZHENKO
Aldonis Verinsh isn't botanist, he is journalist and world known breeder of GLADIOLUS cultivars. Although he for ~20 years isn't more working with breeding, still some 70 of his gladiolus varieties you can find in specialised American nurseries catalogues. His cv. 'Daves Memory' for 10 years was the best in it's colour group and is registered in honour hall of gladiolus in USA. Now his hobby is garden paeonias.
Janis

[Armin]

True Tulipa albertii. I grew it as species for ~3 years but only this spring had time to identify. The color is most perfect on last picture. Leaves on background is from T. regelii. Color varies to yellow, too. Flowers are large, stem length 25-30 cm.
Janis

Many thanks for showing the true species

[Otto Fauser]

Otto / Maggi - Quite off topic, it's a woodblock print and a really big one; the artist is Naoko Matsubara.  She did this one of Shankar (with a bit more detail) especially for a friend, I bought it from her estate several years ago.

The majolica tulipière was done by a gardener/ceramicist friend.   I got it about 35 years ago. He does some great tulipières including a few on this site.  

http://dcl.umn.edu/dcl/show_details?page=2&search=s%3Df_search_cache_title%2Br_DESC%26per_page%3D60%26q%3Do_fand%2Bv_Walter_Ostrom%2Bf_search_cache_agent%26page%3D3

A good friend outbid me on a two-headed fish tulipière similar to this one -

http://dcl.umn.edu/dcl/show_details?page=3&search=s%3Df_search_cache_title%2Br_DESC%26per_page%3D60%26q%3Do_fand%2Bv_Walter_Ostrom%2Bf_search_cache_agent%26page%3D3

but at least I get to see it often. Here's another of his fish that I managed to snag, he has been trying to buy it back from me ever since! Great pity he has not done any more. Some great tortoises if you click his name.

johnw        

   John , many thanks for sending the detailed descriptions and photos of the two ceramic pieces and the woodblock print of Ravi , in his younger days . All 3 works beautyful and to my taste - I would be happy to live with them .( just dreaming )

        Otto.     

[Hans J]

In my area we have fields with tulips and other flowers for cutting self - there is nobody -you can cut the flowers which you like and after you lay the money in a box - it seems many peoples pay really for all flowers .....

Here are some pics :

[dominique]

true tulipa greigii 'Jackie'.
A wild vegetatively increasing clone, selected by Kyrgisian grower Sidorzhenko. Introduced in Latvia by famous botanist A. Verins. A real show-stopper that can beautify and brighten every garden.

*Zhirair
I am looking for 3 cultivars old enough, single early 'GALWAY', orange and very scented, the greigii 'ENGADIN' and lily flowered 'MARJOLEIN'
Do you know them and where i can hope find them. All the best
dom

[arisaema]

The oldest thing I have, 'Lac Van Rijn' from 1620 or thereabouts.

ETA: ...and one just for Lesley - T. humilis 'Tête-à-Tête' 

[Hans J]

Here in my garden the last tulip

Tulipa sprengeri

[Lesley Cox]

You are getting to know me too well Arisaema - or perhaps not because oddly, I find those fat globes quite attractive among their fine foliage. Perhaps it is fellow feeling.

'Lac Van Rijn' is a beauty too. How wonderful to have a flower that has survived so long.

[udo]

One from the last Tulipa for this spring:
Tulipa marjollettii, i hope, this is correct.
In the first two days only greenisch-yellow, later with a red edge

[cohan]

The oldest thing I have, 'Lac Van Rijn' from 1620 or thereabouts.

ETA: ...and one just for Lesley - T. humilis 'Tête-à-Tête' 

hmm, you know maybe i have something in common with lesley in not being fond of manmade floral oddities or overexuberances (love natural weirdos
but somehow for a few of those genera that have been in cultivation forever -roses, peonies, tulips- i make exceptions--especially over-the-top tulips, i kind of like (not that i am growing any)-maybe its an association with great old dutch paintings? this one has an interesting combination of excessive flower with 'humble' plant...

[Maggi Young]

I know exactly what you mean ,cohan... in fact the point is made very neatly in a link that Gail has just given in the paeony pages...
http://www.bennisonpeonies.co.uk/index.htm

The title page of this website has a glorious photo of some mouthwatering Itoh hybrid paeonies which looks for all the world like an old painting.... just exquisite!