Tulipa 2011

[Hans J]

Hi Armin ,

thank you for your interest 

Hans

[Susan Band]

Thanks Armin,
It is a lovely Tulip that fits well into the garden growing through shrubs as does T. sylvestris and T. sprengeri. Tulips can sometimes be hard to place in a less formal garden.
Susan

[Armin]

Susan,
quite right - my garden cannot be called a 'formal' garden, too

[ArnoldT]

Tulipa altaica
Tulipa clusiana
Tulipa urumiensis

[Thomas Huber]

Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??

[Regelian]

Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??

Tomas,

that looks like the standard T. clusiana clusiana, which differs from the more typical cultivar 'Peppermint' in having an almost black base.  I picked some up this past Autumn at my better garden centre.  Commercially grown, but sold loose, not packaged.

Jamie

[pehe]

Tulipa pulchella albocaerula is one of my favourites.

Poul

[ArnoldT]

Thomas:

Came from the firm of Hoog and Dix in 1999.  It has dwindle down to three bulbs from 10.

[BULBISSIME]

I agree with you Poul, it's also one of my favourite !
did you smell it ?? 
you have a very nice clump, I don't have have one fter some years....

[mark smyth]

great to see everyone else has tulips on show. Mine are gone for another year. The last shrivelled and became crisp on their heads for the second year.

Fermi, Will and I went to the botanic gardens in Dublin yesterday. Their annual and tulip beds were stunning and the tulip display beds were also jaw dropping.

[Armin]

Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??

Thomas,
please see here for more C. clusiana's, replies 282 & 284:  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2991.270
 

[pehe]

I agree with you Poul, it's also one of my favourite !
did you smell it ?? 
you have a very nice clump, I don't have have one fter some years....

Fred, I did not smell them, but as I remember they are only lightly fragrant.
If you are interested I can send you some daughter bulbs when I lift them in June.

Poul

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks Jamie, Arnold and Armin. I don't have that form,
just the cultivar 'Lady Jane' which hasnt got that dark center.
Will look for this form next autumn!!!

Poul, wonderful sight of this great tulip.
I tried them several times, but always failed 

[BULBISSIME]

thanks for your offer Poul, but I'll wait for my bulbs to increase the clump 

[Boyed]

Some tulips from my collection.
Would like to show some tulipa tarda cultivars, bred in USSR.

tulipa tarda 'Solneczny Zaiczik' - Y.A. Pastschenko (differs from ordinary tarda by considerably larger sizes, flowers are twise as large, leaves are darker and very wide, bulbs have the size of those of garden tulip; the other difference is bloom shape (petals are elongated)

tulipa tarda 'Solnischko' - Z.M. Silina (this one also has larger sizes and big bulbs, but its main difference is that one bulb produces number of rosettes).