Tulipa 2011

[annew]

This one was very colourful in the garden:

Tulipa hageri 'Little Beauty'

I really like this little tulip, it increase very quickly and flowers very well every year here.

[David Nicholson]

I try not to look at this thread! Great danger of another obsession

[Graham Catlow]

I try not to look at this thread! Great danger of another obsession

I know what you mean David.

[Gerry Webster]

Tulipa montana

Said to derive from a collection made by  Paul Sintensis (PS898), circa 1900, nr. Suluklu, Turkmenistan.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Quite a historic plant Gerry and an excellent one at that !! 

[Gerry Webster]

Tulipa hageri

From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey

[Onion]

Gerry,

what a colour. Wow!!!!!!!!
 See that you are sometimes a very good "bulbkiller"

[Gerry Webster]

I like it too Uli.

These days I don't kill as many bulbs as I used to. Or maybe the ones that have survived are very tough!

[Gerry Webster]

Tulipa batalinii

The true, unhybridised species which seems to be quite uncommon these days.
A gift from Lionel Reuben.

[Regelian]

Here are shots of a group of T. batalini seedlings.  I don't know how you tell if they are true or hybrids.  The vary in height quite a bit and, as one can see, colouring is variable.  I grow the cultivar 'Bronze Charm', which is quite short.

Also, shots of T. orphanidea Flava , which is really a cool looking tulipa.

I've never been able to grow tulips well in any of my previous gardens.  They seem to love my current one, though.

(see next post)

[Gerry Webster]

Jamie - The tulip is T.orphanidea; it looks like the variety 'Flava'.

The species T. batalinii has flowers which are entirely pale yellow; the hybrids (with T. linifolia I think) have flowers which are infused with a bronze or apricot colour.

[Regelian]

Thanks, Gerry, on both counts.

Now I need to find seed or bulbs of the true specie, although the hybrid does make a lovely spot of colour.

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks, Gerry, on both counts.

Now I need to find seed or bulbs of the true specie, although the hybrid does make a lovely spot of colour.

Jamie - 'Rare Plants' (Paul Christian) sometimes lists the species. If I get any seed, though I rarely do on tulips, I can send you some.

A further note on T. batalinii: there has long been a body of opinion that it is no more than a semi-albino form of T. linifolia & this is the position adopted by Richard Wilford in his recent book on tulips. He subsumes both the 'species' & the hybrids under T. linifolia Batalinii Group.

[Regelian]

Gerry,

that is enlightening.  I've grown the typical T. linifolia from Holland, but never really associated it with T. batalinii.  One can only assume that he had good reson to combine the two, although they are visually distinct.  Also explains why my 'hybrids' were offered as the species, although that should have been offered as T.linifolia 'Batalini Group' or simply T. linifolia.  I guess what ever sells best. 

[Gerdk]

Here is Tulipa armena from N. E. Turkey - selected because of its sligthly
brownish tinted outside

Gerd