Tulipa 2011

[Boyed]

By the way, I updated and added the information on meadium and tall growing gregii tulips in my website with at least 5 photos on each cultivar with detailed description. Not all the greigiis are in the list yet, but 60% is there. Unfortunately the website is in Russian yet, but you can use online translator or at least enjoy the photos of tulips.

http://tulipdatabase.narod.ru/greigii_tall_rus.html

[Janis Ruksans]

Greetings, Zhirair, with returning on Forum! Seems that spring started with you, too.
Janis

[ielaba2011]

Hi Maggi …thank you so much for your answer.
I also love the larger hybrids but as I told, I haven´t been lucky with them. I don´t even know much about the small species tulip but they seem a very exiting option..and they are exquisitely beautiful. I want to try them, and to know as much as possible here


Thank you very much Zhirairt!!
It´s the first time I learned about this…but it seems a really great advice, and it makes all the sense…sometimes I have lifted my bulbs out of the soil only to find them destroyed …or maybe that was all smaller bulbs. Now I don´t know… I´m very interested on finding Tulip bulbs that will naturalize for me in my soil/climate conditions. And yes I must have the bulbs from specialized nurseries! Thanks for your advice; for sure you must know tulips really well, so I will be keen on it!

[Casalima]

Olá Jaime!

The species tulips are wonderful and not well known in Portugal. Have you seen the recent post at Das plantas e das pessoas? http://plantas-e-pessoas.blogspot.com/2011/03/tulipa-sylvestris-subsp-australis-link.html
I am really just starting my collection and at the moment they are all in pots.

um abraço

[ielaba2011]

Olá Jaime!

The species tulips are wonderful and not well known in Portugal. Have you seen the recent post at Das plantas e das pessoas? http://plantas-e-pessoas.blogspot.com/2011/03/tulipa-sylvestris-subsp-australis-link.html
I am really just starting my collection and at the moment they are all in pots.

um abraço

Olá Chloe...
I had already noticed that I was not only Portuguese in here, and that is Nice! There is so few information in our language about this Tulips..Good to know that I am not the only one interested. I know a friend that has Tulipa tarda, or at least we think it is... Is it easy to order them from any specialized nurserie from abroad? I would like to try and order some from UK next Autumn.
I didn´t know about Das Plantas e das pessoas blog, I have just checked...Obrigado
Abraço.

[PeterT]

Hi my Name is Jaime, I´m from Portugal..I´ve just found this forum. My main Interest here are Tulip bulbs, particularly species Tulip. I´ve always loved Tulips but it is rather frustrating when they don´t come back in the next year...or they do bloom in the 2nd year but very weakly. I Live in zone 9 with cool winter/ very hot dry summer ( sometimes in December and January it can drop to -5 C over the night, frost is usual) but all the Tulips I have tried do not perform well for some reason or another. I would like to know more about Species Tulips, which ones are the best, the most reliable...and the prettiest In Portugal I only Know about Tulipa tarda and there is not many information about other Tulips, So I joined the Forum and Hope you can help me...I love Tulips:)

Hello Jaimie, Welcome.
Others here know a lot more about tulips than I do, but I believe that they will not increace without a little lime or an alkaline soil.
Peter

[ielaba2011]

Hi Peter, thank you! It´s so nice to find so many Tulip fans...well, about the soil, lime should not be a problem in the area I live in, we mainly have a lime/alkaline soil. Thank you for the tip, as I´ve been reading this seems to be an important issue, as well as well-drained soil. 
Do you grow many species Tulips? Have you had good results?...I believe that is also important to add a good fertiliser.
Jaime

[fermi de Sousa]

Olá Jaime,
I grow a few of the species tulips here in Central Victoria in the South-east corner of Australia.
Our conditions are considered "Mediterranean" with cold winters and hot dry summers (except for the one we've just finished! )
The ones that I find do well for me include TT cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii.
T. tarda and T. biflora tend to flower within the leaves and don't put on much of a show!
A T. vvedenskyi/greiggii cross which came from Janis Ruksans is also doing well.
cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

Out already for me are Neustrovae, bifloriformis and kaufmanniana Voshod

[Onion]

Hi Peter, thank you! It´s so nice to find so many Tulip fans...well, about the soil, lime should not be a problem in the area I live in, we mainly have a lime/alkaline soil. Thank you for the tip, as I´ve been reading this seems to be an important issue, as well as well-drained soil. 
Do you grow many species Tulips? Have you had good results?...I believe that is also important to add a good fertiliser.
Jaime

Jamie,
nice to see a other tulip-fan here. Yes you are right with the good fertiliser you need for tulips. After looking years around to find a fertiliser easy to find in gardencenters I now use a tomato-fertilizer.

[ielaba2011]

Olá Jaime,
I grow a few of the species tulips here in Central Victoria in the South-east corner of Australia.
Our conditions are considered "Mediterranean" with cold winters and hot dry summers (except for the one we've just finished! )
The ones that I find do well for me include TT cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii.
T. tarda and T. biflora tend to flower within the leaves and don't put on much of a show!
A T. vvedenskyi/greiggii cross which came from Janis Ruksans is also doing well.
cheers
fermi

Olá Fermi,
Yes I belive that´s true,  Portugal has a similar climate to south Australia...so if you do have success with this species, there is no reason for the same not happening to me. So I have to keep these in mind " T cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii" a preaty interesting collection...and very colorful. I find T tarda rather smal, more like a crocus, but still I want to try it also! Is kaufmanni also a species-tulip? Clusiana is definitely one I want to have, it is so beautiful...Are all your Tulips naturalizing well? I`m sure they had to learn how to swim this Summer

[ielaba2011]

Hi Uli
I do Love Tulips, they are great!! But I had not good results with the showy Dutch Hybrids, they only bloom well in the first year...Zhirair, has already gave me some clues why this is happening. But for now I am willing to try new species tulip. Fertilizer is also important, tomato-fertilizer is easy to find..thank you for your advice! I´m looking forward for the next fall and to buy new Tulip bulbs, this time species tulips

[Gerdk]

Here is Tulipa hissarica -
ex SRGC Seed Distribution 2008 - bulblets received January 2009

Gerd

[ashley]

Very nice hissarica Gerd   The clone I have always flowers inside the leaves, no matter how I try to manage it.

First one in the garden here is the usual commercial form of Tulipa turkestanica.

[Gerdk]

Thanks Ashley - my plants (inside grown) had not much light in winter, perhaps this was the reason for the position of the flowers.

Gerd