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Title: Tulip wanted
Post by: mark smyth on August 09, 2010, 09:36:25 PM: I was planning to buy some Tulips this autumn but have forgotten the name ::)

I have tried serching the SRGC but obviously have the name wrong. I think it is possibly kaufmanniana Egam.

Can you help?
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: mark smyth on August 09, 2010, 09:39:39 PM: I should have thought for longer. It's Ugam
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: bulborum on August 09, 2010, 10:25:36 PM: Hello Mark

It is for sale in Holland under Tulipa kaufmanniana 'UGAM' (registered by Dutch under name 'Icestick').
I can have a look for you Tuesday when I go

Roland
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: mark smyth on August 09, 2010, 10:43:34 PM: excellent Roland
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: PeterT on October 05, 2010, 08:47:36 AM: Let me Know if you are still looking for it. I think I have it still to pot
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: chasw on October 05, 2010, 10:02:51 AM: Also off to the Netherlands this week end Mark so will keep my eyes open
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: mark smyth on October 05, 2010, 09:08:39 PM: Yes still looking ::)
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: Maren on October 05, 2010, 10:55:22 PM: Hi,

may I tag on to this please. I'm after a tulip I saw in Ian Butterfield's garden last year. It had a label Tulip pulchellum lilliput, which is wrong certainly as far as the Latin is concerned.

So if we transform it into Tulipa pulchella 'Lilliput', does such a variety exist? It is very short as the name implies and the flowers are surprisingly large, darwin shaped, and deep red. I'd love to have some but don't know where to look.
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: Diane Clement on October 05, 2010, 11:26:43 PM: Quote from: Maren on October 05, 2010, 10:55:22 PM
So if we transform it into Tulipa pulchella 'Lilliput', does such a variety exist? It is very short as the name implies and the flowers are surprisingly large, darwin shaped, and deep red. I'd love to have some but don't know where to look.

Try looking for Tulipa humilis 'Liliput'. T pulchella went into T humilis some time ago and although I believe it's now been reinstated, it takes everyone time to catch up. It's certainly still under T humilis in the Plantfinder. And that is where to look for a supplier. Try the on line version here:

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/pfregions.asp?ID=114823 (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/pfregions.asp?ID=114823)
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: Maggi Young on October 05, 2010, 11:37:48 PM: Rob Potterton stocks it, Maren..... and Kevock too , I think.
Title: Re: Tulip wanted
Post by: Maren on October 06, 2010, 12:19:25 AM: Thank you Dianne and Maggi, I've found them and ordered them. A happy feeling to go to sleep on. :) :) :) :)