Tulipa 2011

[Arda Takan]

This website has some language code problems I guess. And I couldn't find some cultivars which were in oldhousegarden

[Maggi Young]

Is it really Tulipa hageri I have

It looks like the one we call hageri, Oleg.... but that is no guarantee! Ours have a clouded dark centre with a little frame of gold.... but I don't think the gold/yellow edge to the central dark throat is always there in every form.

[Gerry Webster]

Is it really Tulipa hageri I have

It looks like the one we call hageri, Oleg.... but that is no guarantee! Ours have a clouded dark centre with a little frame of gold.... but I don't think the gold/yellow edge to the central dark throat is always there in every form.

There is no gold/yellow in the form I grow - originally from a Norman Stevens collection:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6483.120

[Arda Takan]

Tulipa hageri

From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey

Do you know where exactly in W. Turkey?

[Armin]

Is it really Tulipa hageri I have

Oleg,
I can't say from your image too but two pictures T. hageri taken from Hortus Bulborum and two from T. whittallii of my own garden for comparison.
Maybe it helps you.

[Gerry Webster]

Tulipa hageri

From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey

Do you know where exactly in W. Turkey?

Arda - Sorry, I don't.

[Arda Takan]

There are insects on my tulips' leaves.. They are black and not moving. What should I do?

[ranunculus]

There are insects on my tulips' leaves.. They are black and not moving. What should I do?

Kiss of life?   

[Maggi Young]

Arda, ignore Ranunculus and his jokes 

I'd get rubber gloves and squash them all as best I could. It's the easiest way to deal with them quickly without using any chemicals.   Strange that they're not moving... maybe it is because there are so many ?

Give the gloves a good wash between each plant... in case of spreading virus, if the black insects have not done so already.

[ranunculus]

My apologies, Arda ... I couldn't resist. 

[Miriam]

There are insects on my tulips' leaves.. They are black and not moving. What should I do?

Seems like aphids. Dip cotton-wool in alcohol (75%, you can get in any pharmacy) mixed with water at a ratio of 20% alcohol and 80% water and remove the aphids.

Good luck 

[PeterT]

Are these the Tulips from the southern hemisphere Arda?

[Arda Takan]

ranunculus,
It's ok I like jokes

PeterT,
Yes they are.

Thank you all for your concern

[FrazerHenderson]

Whilst reading a copy of Gardening Illustrated (no 183 Vol IV, 9 September 1882) I chanced upon the following

"Tulipa - The ground for these should be prepared this month. Trench it 2 feet deep at least, and mix some rotted manure with the soil. Prepare some fibrous turfy loam, place 3 inches or 4 inches of it on the surface of the beds, and in this the bulbs should be planted. Place some sharp river sand round each root [bulb] at planting time, which should be in November."



I also recently acquired a facsimile of The Scots Gard'ner by John Reid (1683) which is probably the first horticultural book published in Scotland for the gardener. It contains a wealth of general information particularly about planning and managing a garden. Though the advice may be over 300 years old it remains relevant today. His short section on tulips caught my attention - 

 “Of bulbo and tuberous roots there is Tulipas of great varieties, increases them by offsets when their stalks withers, which is generally June, July, August; this is also the season for other bulbo and tuberous roots; keep then in a cool but dry place till September or October and then plant them in a light sandy earth with fat soil an inch below the bulb, so that the roots may reach it, remove every three years or oftener if thy affect not the soil: they may be raised by seed but its tedious.” 

Alas, Reid never discusses varieties in his writings as he is more interested in practical skills to ensure the success of plants.

Anyhow, something of interest.

[PeterT]

There is a lot of good information in old books, I once read of sieving road dust to get grit for alpines and bulb compost, - the book pre dated tarmac