Tulips 2012

[Janis Ruksans]

Another one opened for me today ! 

Tulipa berkariense

Sorry the third picture is blurry, but it shows the height (?) of the plant - barely 8 cm 

Many entries from me today, but I'm checking Forum entries of other bulbs not so often. Now I'm using free evening in hotel before flying home from Greece. Superb picture of my new species discovered by me during my first trip to Central Asia.
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Another one opened for me today ! 

Tulipa berkariense

Sorry the third picture is blurry, but it shows the height (?) of the plant - barely 8 cm 

Many entries from me today, but I'm checking Forum entries of other bulbs not so often. Now I'm using free evening in hotel before flying home from Greece. Superb picture of my new species discovered by me during my first trip to Central Asia.
Janis

It's a real stunner Janis !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A beautiful tulip Oron !!  Fantastic !
How tall is it in flower ??


I had Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Nessy' in flower today.

Nice to see tulip cultivar raised by me in 80' so nice. It think you got ir from Augis? I lost it many years ago due rodents and replaced just from Augis 2 years ago. He kept this beauty through years. Originally it was named for my girlfriend Nelly, but when she left me I renamed it...
Janis

You're right Janis - nice to know the story behind it ! 

[johnw]

Bought as Tulipa humils 'Albo-Caerula Oculata'!    One more reason to grow SRGC seedex seed.

Any ideas?

johnw

[Tony Willis]

Tulipa armena from Erzurum in Eastern Turkey

[Janis Ruksans]

Bought as Tulipa humils 'Albo-Caerula Oculata'!    One more reason to grow SRGC seedex seed.

Any ideas?

johnw

It is some of turkestanica group. Just which one impossible to determine by picture.
Janis

[LucS]

Two more to add:
Tulipa lownei from Mt. Hermon
Tulipa kurdica

[Luc Gilgemyn]

My first Tulipa greigii is out today :

it's a cultivar named "Mountain's Glory"

[arilnut]

Tulip clusiana
Tulip Corona

John B

[mark smyth]

Here is T. Gavota in full flower in my garden - 4 weeks early. It normally looks like this during mid to late April

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some more tulips out today :

1-2 : Tulipa altaica
3-4 : Tulipa dubia - beldersai - has some damage to the flowers by the hard frost of early February 
5-6 : Tulipa kolpakowskiana
7-8 : Tulipa stapfii

[Armin]

Luc,
I enjoy to see all those lovely wee beauties in your rock garden.
Compared to my garden you can be very happy with the view frost damages, I lost tulip colonies this winter
Never had this before.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sorry to hear that Armin !
I do have lots less flowers on many Tulips, probably because of too early dormancy after last year's warm early Spring.
None of my humilis flowered and another number of Tulips had damaged, distorted flowers because of the horrid cold after the warm early Winter...   Not a good tulip season, but I hope I haven't lost any.. 

[Armin]

Luc,
you exactly describe it. Not a good season.

I agree with you that 2011 season wasn't good at all, too. Spring was extremely dry followed by a wet summer.
The much too warm winter has caused early growth followed by terrible black frosts in February...
This was deadly for T. kaufmanniana+cvs., T. eichleri, T. 'Velvet Lily' (acuminata_x_eichleri), T. linifolia, T. orphanidea, T. clusiana+cvs.+seedlings, T. biflora, T. subpraestans, T. neustruevae, T.montana, T. kolpakowskiana, T. humilis (partly), T. fosteriana+cvs.(partly)
Here and there I find single and damaged leaves but it will need some years (of good conditions) to recover.

Surprisingly a good doer is T. saxatilis, early leaves got totally frozen but growths continues.
T. turkestanica (or is it bifloriformis?), T. praestans, T. aff. albertii (unknown hybrid), T. whittallii & T. tarda have no big frost damages, just growths is smaller.
T. sylvestris growths best of all of them and has set more buds then ever before.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

    What a disaster Armin !  It's not nearly as bad out here..