This week we were visiting friends in Switzerland and were attended to a place, where we could see an old habitat of Tulipa sylvestris, which we never would have found on our own.
I know there are more places where it grows, but I had never seen this tulip in the “wild” before.
It was a very interesting place too, in the middle of the meadows just on a hill under a beautiful formed tree.
There were not many flowers but there must have been more than 1000 bulbs on a few square meters. I believe this is caused by a lack of potassium and maybe other nutrients.
Here some pictures and also two from our friends garden, who told me there is a difference between T. sylvestis in the trade, which are more robust. But the cultivated stock seems to come from Tebriz in Iran and is not the European form.
