Hortus Bulborum Museum Garden

[Maggi Young]

Luit, you are too hard on me.... I have not met Barbara.... Frau Ruby, I assume?
A coincidence, since Frau Joschko is also Barbara 

[Boyed]

Armin,

Greatest thanks for such wonderful pictures. So many positive impressions!!!!!!!!!!! I always get mesmerised when I see photos of antique bulbs taken at Hortus Bulborum

[Lvandelft]

Luit, you are too hard on me.... I have not met Barbara.... Frau Ruby, I assume?
A coincidence, since Frau Joschko is also Barbara 

So sorry Maggi, I didn't know that.

Armin, I know Barbara prefers to stay in the background, but just one picture where she is not too much in the foreground for Maggi.

[Armin]

Zhirair,
some more magic tulip photos will follow...

Luit, a nice shot of ' two ladies on a bench'

[Armin]

My focus of the visit was for the early flowering tulips.

I continue with T. biebersteiniana which resembles T. sylvestris. T. sylvestris was not yet in flower in HB.
I've attached a photo from my garden for comparison.

Next tulip is T. dubia - two different forms a yellow/red and a red with yellow center. T. dubia has a remarkable nice foliage.

[Boyed]

Again, wondeful shots Armin!!!!!!
Thanks for showing, sharing your impressions and letting us vertually to be present at HB.

I especially liked T. biebersteiniana.

[Armin]

Zhirair,
one day I hope you can visit HB

More tulip images:

T. eichleri was introduced as T. undulatifolia already 1844. Since then some interesting variants / cultivars have been introduced.
All common is the large flower and the more or less bluish foiliage.
Clare Benedict 1956
Excelsa 1939
Tessa 1993
Wagenaar
Yellow form

[Boyed]

Armin, what a beauty!!!!
I do like tulipa eichleri and its cultivars. Very nice tulip with large beautiful shape of bloom and bright colour. And now I see some cultivars, which are not familliar to me. very interesting. 'Tessa' has quite elegant shape!

I forgot to mention that some tulipa eichleri cultivars are hybrids with tulipa forteriana.

[Lvandelft]

I hoped to see again the gorgeous T. clusiana cultivars in flower but most were still in bud stage. Only a view, one with dark anthers, cv. 'Persica' is lovely in my eyes. The second one, still nameless, has just a number. It resembles a short and compact growing red/white T. clusiana.
Unfortunately I missed to ask about its background - breeding result or new find, I don't know. Maybe one of forum member knows more about it.

Armin, looking at the special number of this variety, this is probably a tulip out of the special Breeding Program by the IVT, the Former Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding at Wageningen NL.

[Armin]

Luit,
thank you for that hint. Maybe it will be named soon.

Zhirair,
I agree Tessa is a very elegant tulip. T. fosteriana is the next gem I like to show.

T. fosteriana is in commerce since 1906 and in habitus, with brilliant large red flowers, similar like T. eichleri.
There are many beautiful cultivars of T. fosteriana.
Two unusual with beautiful striped foiliage are Robassa from 1981 and Toulon from 1961.
My personal favourite however is Juan from 1961 with a yellow center and nice bicolored foliage.

In the context of highly contrasted red large flowers I show you T. ingens, too.

[Boyed]

Armin,
again wonderful photos.
Tulipa fosteriana is among my favourites too. I have some very beuatiful wild types, which I will certainly show in TULIPA thead when they are in bloom.
'Juan' is very catchy owing to its bright large yellow base and nice bloom shape, 'Toulon' by its leaves. Tulipa inges is very appealing by its bright base and nice shape of flower, making impression as it looks semi-double.

[Armin]

Zhirair,
thank you. I'll be pleased to see your T. fosterianas soon.

I still have some large red flowering cultivars and species to show...

T. lanata - a real stunner in my eyes
T. tubergeniana - interesting how it opens the flowers with rolled pedals.
T. Ttubone - a nice hybrid one with pinkish luminence.
T. Apeldoorn Black Centre - a quite new introduction from 2005. I think a contrast rich completion in the Apeldoorn Darwin Hybrids group.

[ashley]

So many fine tulips Armin  
T. biebersteiniana aborts its flowers when I grow it in a pot so maybe it would be better released into the garden!
T. tubone is particularly nice and one I've never seen before.

[Lvandelft]

T. tubone - a nice one with pinkish luminence.

Armin , the name of this hybrid tulip is Tubone.
I did some research and talked to the breeder about where the name came from and he gave no information about, as well nothing about parentage etc.
Just that some species were involved. Talking with the man was rather incommunicable   
He took this tulip out of the trade because he thought they are to much susceptible to viruses.
Therefore it is not likely you will hear much more about it.

[Armin]

Luit,
thank you for your support and correction.

I just followed the name on the label...
I know - should not believe all right away

Ashley,
thanks for your comment.