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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Casalima on January 09, 2011, 12:57:59 PM
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My first ever tulip: Tulipa biebersteiniana, from Miniature Bulbs.
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Hopefully this will encourage you to try many more ;D
cheers
fermi
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Good start Chloë !!
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Well done Chloe
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A beautifully little early tulip, Tulipa cretica. Am I the only one with tulips this early? :)
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Very nice small tulip:)
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A beautifully little early tulip, Tulipa cretica. Am I the only one with tulips this early? :)
You could well be Chloe.
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A beautifully little early tulip, Tulipa cretica. Am I the only one with tulips this early? :)
You are Chloë, you are !! ;)
Very nice !
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Chloe
Is T. cretica hardy?
Thanks.
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I dont expect to see my T. cretica until May
Arda in my garden it has survived -11. Time will tell if it survived the -13 during December
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Chloe
Is T. cretica hardy?
Thanks.
Tulipa cretica is one of very fewTulip species not hardy here. It allways makes leaves during winter and they are killed by frosts and bulbs die in 1-2 years. Tried several times and now it is out of my wish-list.
Janis
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Thanks Mark and Janis,
I think it can survive in my garden.
what about T. saxatilis? does it have the same characteristics since they are from the same region?
Sincerely,
Arda
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Lovely tulips Chloë; both biebersteiniana & cretica are still a couple of weeks off flowering for me, despite mild weather recently.
Here the first is always T. edulis (was Amana edulis)
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A beautifully little early tulip, Tulipa cretica. Am I the only one with tulips this early? :)
Yes, it seems so - have some buds on some tulips but will need still one or two weeks for the first flower.
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I grow T. cretica and T. saxatilis since many years, in the outdoor garden and spare in the frame without problem.
We have sometimes -10° for several days but they allways have survived.
T. cretica looks even better outdoor as they get more light and start to grow later.
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Lovely tulips Chloë; both biebersteiniana & cretica are still a couple of weeks off flowering for me, despite mild weather recently.
Here the first is always T. edulis (was Amana edulis)
Chloe you're off to a flying start!
Our T. edulis (was Amana edulis) is just a little bit behind Ashley's.
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Hi everyone
I had not realised there was a T. edulis, but the garden here (Letchworth, UK) is visited by deer (muntjac - a Chinese species that is now common in much of England) who find all my tulips very edible! This year the deer seem very hungry and most tulip shoots have been eaten back to ground level. In other years they wait until the flowers are about to open and then eat them all during the night. Very very annoying.
This week I even found two shoots of Euphorbia "fireglow" that had been eaten, the tops were a few centimeters away presumably having been spat out. Most bulbs are not eaten but Fritillaria meleagris, bluebells and particularly Erythronium "pagoda" have all been eaten regularly each year.
Chris
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I'm testing some equipment to repulse the deers in the garden.
Seems to be efficient but still have to wait the spring to be sure....
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I grow T. cretica and T. saxatilis since many years, in the outdoor garden and spare in the frame without problem.
We have sometimes -10° for several days but they allways have survived.
T. cretica looks even better outdoor as they get more light and start to grow later.
Thanks Fred
I will give it a try
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Hi everyone
I had not realised there was a T. edulis, but the garden here (Letchworth, UK) is visited by deer (muntjac - a Chinese species that is now common in much of England) who find all my tulips very edible! This year the deer seem very hungry and most tulip shoots have been eaten back to ground level. In other years they wait until the flowers are about to open and then eat them all during the night. Very very annoying.
This week I even found two shoots of Euphorbia "fireglow" that had been eaten, the tops were a few centimeters away presumably having been spat out. Most bulbs are not eaten but Fritillaria meleagris, bluebells and particularly Erythronium "pagoda" have all been eaten regularly each year.
Chris
I'm giving in winter food to does around my property - every summer collecting a lot of hay. In result they very rarely visits my open beds and damage is insignificant. Could help dog, but if damage is serious - call local hunters - gardeners in Latvia are joking that single remedy against deers who find your tulips is only bullet. My garden's "guard" you can see on attached picture, but she is too friendly to deer and doe and give no attention to them, sometimes sleeping even some 10 m from my house.
Janis
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She is beautiful, Janis. 8)
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She is beautiful, Janis. 8)
You have a very lovely looking dog Janis, - I am sure she would like some venison if you have to call the hunters
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Janis what breed is your dog?
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Janis what breed is your dog?
Scottish sheep-dog - Colly, name - Rejejs Ghostly Ginger, normally named Ginger or Ginga.
Janis
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A fine name for a fine dog .
Originally bred in Scotland these are known as "Rough Collies" for their long coats.... famous in the movies as "Lassie" 8)
There are short haired varieties, too "Smooth Collies".
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Tulipa pulchella violacaea is going fast now.
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Hello all
Bulbs from Marcus Harvey have arrived:) He suggested to put them in fridge for cold stratification. But I wonder if keeping them out in this season would be enough for them to leave dormancy? I am living in a hardy zone. Marchs are really cold. It rains many times in April. And After 15th of May it gets warm.
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Lovely tulips Chloë; both biebersteiniana & cretica are still a couple of weeks off flowering for me, despite mild weather recently.
Here the first is always T. edulis (was Amana edulis)
Chloe you're off to a flying start!
Our T. edulis (was Amana edulis) is just a little bit behind Ashley's.
--- so are mine (a gift from TH - good clone, flowers regularly)
Gerd
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Very nice one Gerd !
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Hello all
Bulbs from Marcus Harvey have arrived:) He suggested to put them in fridge for cold stratification. But I wonder if keeping them out in this season would be enough for them to leave dormancy? I am living in a hardy zone. Marchs are really cold. It rains many times in April. And After 15th of May it gets warm.
help please
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Hello Arda,
I am no expert on tulips though I grow a few.
I have however converted a few bulbs from the southern hemisphere. The main thing is to pursuade the dormant bulb to grow roots at a suitable time in it's new home.
If your March is like October for tulips it should root. the next problem will be to keep it growing when it comes up, You will probably have to water it in April May June. if it is too hot the bulbs will cook.
I would plant the bulbs in sand and keep them in the shade outside. I would give only a little of water untill they show leaves. Not dry, not wet.
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Little experience with bulbs from SH - planted out in January they did not start growing before autumn (like those I stored dry and were planted end of summer).
Here Tulipa agenensis ssp. sharonensis (if not anyone has changed the labels ;))
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Very nice plants Hans, you should have a lot of sun !
Mine are more elongated as we had a very cloudy winter this year :( >:(
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A great Tulip Hans !!
Very nice indeed ! :o
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Little experience with bulbs from SH - planted out in January they did not start growing before autumn (like those I stored dry and were planted end of summer).
Here Tulipa agenensis ssp. sharonensis (if not anyone has changed the labels ;))
Armin,
There are several differences:
*The flowers of Tulipa agenensis are bigger and more reddish than the flowers of Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis.
*The leaves of Tulipa agenensis are more curly and not straight as appear often in Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis.
*Tulipa agenensis grows in the mountains area and Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis grows in the coast plane area.
Hans a beautiful plant and looks so happy just like it is the wild. Miriam posted a picture of this last year and the leaves weren't curly or am I confused ???. My tulips hardly showing at all here.
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Tulipa neustreuvae opent his flowers today
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Very striking!
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My Tulipa neustreuvae were open last Saturday. Visitors to the garden were amazed by it
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Thanks to all! Tulipa neustreuvae is a cracker!
Little experience with bulbs from SH - planted out in January they did not start growing before autumn (like those I stored dry and were planted end of summer).
Here Tulipa agenensis ssp. sharonensis (if not anyone has changed the labels ;))
Armin,
There are several differences:
*The flowers of Tulipa agenensis are bigger and more reddish than the flowers of Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis.
*The leaves of Tulipa agenensis are more curly and not straight as appear often in Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis.
*Tulipa agenensis grows in the mountains area and Tulipa agenensis subsp. sharonensis grows in the coast plane area.
Hans a beautiful plant and looks so happy just like it is the wild. Miriam posted a picture of this last year and the leaves weren't curly or am I confused ???. My tulips hardly showing at all here.
Thanks Ian - had the same thoughts - but it seems to vary a bit - Oron had posted a great picture of it, which looks very similar to those I am growing:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2906.msg68374#msg68374
Here first T. saxatilis have started - thought only the comercial form produces more than one flower per stalk - but one of those also has two buds (the comercial form I grow has up to seven or more and the plants double the size)
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[quote author=Hans A.
Thanks Ian - had the same thoughts - but it seems to vary a bit - Oron had posted a great picture of it, which looks very similar to those I am growing:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2906.msg68374#msg68374
Here first T. saxatilis have started - thought only the comercial form produces more than one flower per stalk - but one of those also has two buds (the comercial form I grow has up to seven or more and the plants double the size)
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Hans interesting link so whatever it is it is very nice and that wavy foliage lying on the ground 8) I always find attractive
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Tulips are on the way here as well !
T. pulchella violacea modestly opened it's flowers in yesterday's sun, despite the cold.
Tulipa stapfii a few weeks from flowering yet, but I already love it because of the curley leaves ! :D
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Hi my Name is Jaime, I´m from Portugal..I´ve just found this forum. My main Interest here are Tulip bulbs, particularly species Tulip. I´ve always loved Tulips but it is rather frustrating when they don´t come back in the next year...or they do bloom in the 2nd year but very weakly. I Live in zone 9 with cool winter/ very hot dry summer ( sometimes in December and January it can drop to -5 C over the night, frost is usual) but all the Tulips I have tried do not perform well for some reason or another. I would like to know more about Species Tulips, which ones are the best, the most reliable...and the prettiest In Portugal I only Know about Tulipa tarda and there is not many information about other Tulips, So I joined the Forum and Hope you can help me...I love Tulips:)
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Olá Jaime, good to have you join us.
Most of the tulip lovers here are growing the smaller species and some of the smaller hybrids but there are some with a great love of the larger types too... see the posts of Formist 'Boyed ' , for instance.
Take a look through the various tulipa threads... you will find much to delight you , I am sure and other Forumists will have advice for you and the growing conditions you find in your climate.
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Hi my Name is Jaime, I´m from Portugal..I´ve just found this forum. My main Interest here are Tulip bulbs, particularly species Tulip. I´ve always loved Tulips but it is rather frustrating when they don´t come back in the next year...or they do bloom in the 2nd year but very weakly. I Live in zone 9 with cool winter/ very hot dry summer ( sometimes in December and January it can drop to -5 C over the night, frost is usual) but all the Tulips I have tried do not perform well for some reason or another. I would like to know more about Species Tulips, which ones are the best, the most reliable...and the prettiest In Portugal I only Know about Tulipa tarda and there is not many information about other Tulips, So I joined the Forum and Hope you can help me...I love Tulips:)
Jaime, wellcome to forum!
I am a tulip collector and grower with the experince of over 20 years.
Firstly I would like to assure you that all tulips (garden cultivars and species spread in the culture) are 100% good rebloomers and can perform perfectly anually. The only thing is that Dutch commercial bulbs are usually treated with high temperatures during August for the purposes of stimulation of propagation rate and good performance, which on its turn make the bulbs split into several smaller bulbs after the first year of performance, as a result of which the bulbs bloom very weekly the follwoing season. That is why you need additional season to regow those bulbs to flowering size; but after that there would be no serious work to do. They will perfectly bloom for you annually and you can harvest them once in 3 or 5 years. The only thing that must be done by all means - harvest your newly obtained bulbs the first year (no matter species or cultivars), split the bulb nests and then plant them in autumn according to the rules and recommendations.
If you buy your bulbs form speicalized nurceries, which don't grow tulips in large scales, you will usually escape that problem and your tulips will bloom normally the following year as well.
Your climate is quite good for growing tulips.
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The old cultivar
Tulipa "Showwinner" in flower today !
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By the way, I updated and added the information on meadium and tall growing gregii tulips in my website with at least 5 photos on each cultivar with detailed description. Not all the greigiis are in the list yet, but 60% is there. Unfortunately the website is in Russian yet, but you can use online translator or at least enjoy the photos of tulips.
http://tulipdatabase.narod.ru/greigii_tall_rus.html
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Greetings, Zhirair, with returning on Forum! Seems that spring started with you, too.
Janis
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Hi Maggi …thank you so much for your answer.
I also love the larger hybrids but as I told, I haven´t been lucky with them. I don´t even know much about the small species tulip but they seem a very exiting option..and they are exquisitely beautiful. I want to try them, and to know as much as possible here :)
Thank you very much Zhirairt!!
It´s the first time I learned about this…but it seems a really great advice, and it makes all the sense…sometimes I have lifted my bulbs out of the soil only to find them destroyed …or maybe that was all smaller bulbs. Now I don´t know… I´m very interested on finding Tulip bulbs that will naturalize for me in my soil/climate conditions. And yes I must have the bulbs from specialized nurseries! Thanks for your advice; for sure you must know tulips really well, so I will be keen on it!
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Olá Jaime!
The species tulips are wonderful and not well known in Portugal. Have you seen the recent post at Das plantas e das pessoas? http://plantas-e-pessoas.blogspot.com/2011/03/tulipa-sylvestris-subsp-australis-link.html
I am really just starting my collection and at the moment they are all in pots.
um abraço
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Olá Jaime!
The species tulips are wonderful and not well known in Portugal. Have you seen the recent post at Das plantas e das pessoas? http://plantas-e-pessoas.blogspot.com/2011/03/tulipa-sylvestris-subsp-australis-link.html
I am really just starting my collection and at the moment they are all in pots.
um abraço
Olá Chloe...
I had already noticed that I was not only Portuguese in here, and that is Nice! There is so few information in our language about this Tulips..Good to know that I am not the only one interested. I know a friend that has Tulipa tarda, or at least we think it is... Is it easy to order them from any specialized nurserie from abroad? I would like to try and order some from UK next Autumn.
I didn´t know about Das Plantas e das pessoas blog, I have just checked...Obrigado :)
Abraço.
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Hi my Name is Jaime, I´m from Portugal..I´ve just found this forum. My main Interest here are Tulip bulbs, particularly species Tulip. I´ve always loved Tulips but it is rather frustrating when they don´t come back in the next year...or they do bloom in the 2nd year but very weakly. I Live in zone 9 with cool winter/ very hot dry summer ( sometimes in December and January it can drop to -5 C over the night, frost is usual) but all the Tulips I have tried do not perform well for some reason or another. I would like to know more about Species Tulips, which ones are the best, the most reliable...and the prettiest In Portugal I only Know about Tulipa tarda and there is not many information about other Tulips, So I joined the Forum and Hope you can help me...I love Tulips:)
Hello Jaimie, Welcome.
Others here know a lot more about tulips than I do, but I believe that they will not increace without a little lime or an alkaline soil.
Peter
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Hi Peter, thank you! It´s so nice to find so many Tulip fans...well, about the soil, lime should not be a problem in the area I live in, we mainly have a lime/alkaline soil. Thank you for the tip, as I´ve been reading this seems to be an important issue, as well as well-drained soil.
Do you grow many species Tulips? Have you had good results?...I believe that is also important to add a good fertiliser.
Jaime
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Olá Jaime,
I grow a few of the species tulips here in Central Victoria in the South-east corner of Australia.
Our conditions are considered "Mediterranean" with cold winters and hot dry summers (except for the one we've just finished! ;D )
The ones that I find do well for me include TT cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii.
T. tarda and T. biflora tend to flower within the leaves and don't put on much of a show!
A T. vvedenskyi/greiggii cross which came from Janis Ruksans is also doing well.
cheers
fermi
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Out already for me are Neustrovae, bifloriformis and kaufmanniana Voshod
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Hi Peter, thank you! It´s so nice to find so many Tulip fans...well, about the soil, lime should not be a problem in the area I live in, we mainly have a lime/alkaline soil. Thank you for the tip, as I´ve been reading this seems to be an important issue, as well as well-drained soil.
Do you grow many species Tulips? Have you had good results?...I believe that is also important to add a good fertiliser.
Jaime
Jamie,
nice to see a other tulip-fan here. Yes you are right with the good fertiliser you need for tulips. After looking years around to find a fertiliser easy to find in gardencenters I now use a tomato-fertilizer.
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Olá Jaime,
I grow a few of the species tulips here in Central Victoria in the South-east corner of Australia.
Our conditions are considered "Mediterranean" with cold winters and hot dry summers (except for the one we've just finished! ;D )
The ones that I find do well for me include TT cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii.
T. tarda and T. biflora tend to flower within the leaves and don't put on much of a show!
A T. vvedenskyi/greiggii cross which came from Janis Ruksans is also doing well.
cheers
fermi
Olá Fermi,
Yes I belive that´s true, Portugal has a similar climate to south Australia...so if you do have success with this species, there is no reason for the same not happening to me. So I have to keep these in mind " T cretica, saxatilis, clusiana, albertii/vvedenskyii, kaufmannii, kolpakowskiana and whitallii" a preaty interesting collection...and very colorful. I find T tarda rather smal, more like a crocus, but still I want to try it also! Is kaufmanni also a species-tulip? Clusiana is definitely one I want to have, it is so beautiful...Are all your Tulips naturalizing well? I`m sure they had to learn how to swim this Summer ;)
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Hi Uli
I do Love Tulips, they are great!! But I had not good results with the showy Dutch Hybrids, they only bloom well in the first year...Zhirair, has already gave me some clues why this is happening. But for now I am willing to try new species tulip. Fertilizer is also important, tomato-fertilizer is easy to find..thank you for your advice! I´m looking forward for the next fall and to buy new Tulip bulbs, this time species tulips :)
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Here is Tulipa hissarica -
ex SRGC Seed Distribution 2008 - bulblets received January 2009
Gerd
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Very nice hissarica Gerd 8) The clone I have always flowers inside the leaves, no matter how I try to manage it.
First one in the garden here is the usual commercial form of Tulipa turkestanica.
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Thanks Ashley - my plants (inside grown) had not much light in winter, perhaps this was the reason for the position of the flowers.
Gerd
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The first tulips in my greenhouse
Double kaufmanniana 'Agra' - selected in Latvia and name means - Early
Kaufmanniana Sunrise raised by Zinaida Botschantzeva
And two different grown as turkestanica from Aman Kutan and from Nuratau
Janis
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Tulipa neustruvae
- next Tulip here - quite similar to hissarica - somewhat bigger
Gerd
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Tulipa humilis ‘Lilliput' is a very low species.
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Tulipa humilis 'Persian pearl' (photo 1 and 2)
Tulipa stresa (photo 3 and 4)
Tulipa stresa with Tulipa 'Showwinner' (photo 5)
Tulipa 'Showwinner' (photo 6 and 7)
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some small species
Tulipa lownei and T. biflora from Syria, Tulipa humilis var albocoerulea oculata
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Has maybe anybody a idea which Tulip this could be ?
( found in Turkey before many years )
Thanks
Hans
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Hans, I'm not so good in tulips either, but after a bit googling your tulip might be T. armena
Here are some pictures:
http://photos.v-d-brink.eu/Flora-and-Fauna/Asia/Turkey-the-Northeastern-part/10572637_DEEDv#734525997_DXJWb-M-LB (http://photos.v-d-brink.eu/Flora-and-Fauna/Asia/Turkey-the-Northeastern-part/10572637_DEEDv#734525997_DXJWb-M-LB)
Servus!
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Thank you Luit !
Thats looks pretty similar - fine !
Regards
Hans
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Hi everyone, I have found this tulip in a public promenade and I would like to know which one is it. Seems like a species tulip..and it's a rather Small one, some flowers are smaller than a finger...but it's really beautiful and elegant. does someone have a clue about it? Thanks:)
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First flowering Tulips are finished here already
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Hi everyone, I have found this tulip in a public promenade and I would like to know which one is it. Seems like a species tulip..and it's a rather Small one, some flowers are smaller than a finger...but it's really beautiful and elegant. does someone have a clue about it? Thanks:)
Jaime, the tulip looks to me like a Tulipa praestans -
maybe Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier' - a good little tulip that is readily available in the trade and which will naturalise quite well in the garden.
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Hi everyone, I have found this tulip in a public promenade and I would like to know which one is it. Seems like a species tulip..and it's a rather Small one, some flowers are smaller than a finger...but it's really beautiful and elegant. does someone have a clue about it? Thanks:)
Jaime, the tulip looks to me like a Tulipa praestans -
maybe Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier' - a good little tulip that is readily available in the trade and which will naturalise quite well in the garden.
Thank you Maggi, it could well be this one...I´ve seen some pictures now, and it looks like this tulip. Thank you for your fast answers:)
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The first tulips flowering in my greenhouse:
Tulipa turkestanica aff. 311-2 from Eugenijus Dambrauskas in Lithuania and Tulipa regelii.
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That T. regelii is fantastic Kirsten - such wonderful leaves.
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Congratulations !
I'd like to have such success with Tulipa regelii...
your's are wonderfull.
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That T. regelii is fantastic Kirsten - such wonderful leaves.
I agree quite lovely
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Here are a couple from me Tulipa stapfii closed and open and T. bithynica
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About Tulipa regelii: thanks for the comments. It is not difficult to grow. It requires dry summers and must not be watered again before the last half of November.
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not so sensationell like T.regelii ....but a nice plant from Turkey ( maybe also T.armena ) but from a other location
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not so sensationell like T.regelii ....but a nice plant from Turkey ( maybe also T.armena ) but from a other location
Hans i don't agree i prefer yours over regelii.Super flower
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not so sensationell like T.regelii ....but a nice plant from Turkey ( maybe also T.armena ) but from a other location
Hans i don't agree i prefer yours over regelii.Super flower
;D Davey ....if you have a T.regelii for me so we can swap ;D
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It definitely is a cracker Hans !!
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A Tulip from Lebanon flowering now, I think it's Tulipa agenensis as it doesn't look like T. montana.
what is your opinion ?
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Some small tulips flowering here now:
Tulipa cretica
Tulipa hageri 'Little Beauty'
Tulipa tarda
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not so sensationell like T.regelii ....but a nice plant from Turkey ( maybe also T.armena ) but from a other location
Hans i don't agree i prefer yours over regelii.Super flower
;D Davey ....if you have a T.regelii for me so we can swap ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D as soon as i get my hands on one Hans your on.
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A pair of tulips
T. kaufmanniana selection from wild, named by me 'Nessy' - it is one of my first selections
and Tulipa turkestanica s.l. from Oudzhasai, Uzbekistan
Janis
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A few tulipa's here.
T. praestans 'Shogun' (photo 1)
T. urumiensis (photo 2)
T. clusiana (photo 3)
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two Tulips more from my garden :
Tulipa saxatilis
Tulipa sylvestris
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Tulipa callieri from biflora group in Crimea, Ukraina. Thank to Dima.
Janis
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Few hybrids with Tulipa vvedenskyi as mother plant, only indexed as S-41 is cross with vvedenskyi where mother plant was T. greigii.
Janis
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Tulipa Giuseppe Verdi
Tulipa x vvedenskyii x amberland
Tulipa vvdenskyii x Joker
Tulipa vvdenskyii x Joker
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Few hybrids with Tulipa vvedenskyi as mother plant, only indexed as S-41 is cross with vvedenskyi where mother plant was T. greigii.
Janis
Very impressive hybrids, Janis!!!
I am especially thrilled with the first one that has somewhat kaufmanniana shape. Cutty!!!
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two Tulips from today :
Tulipa agenensis ex Cyprus
Tulipa clusiana f. chrysantha
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Great tulips from all! 8)
Hans,
your T.agenensis is a stunner. Wow :o 8) 8)
Here my modest contribution...
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Thank you Armin ;D I'm glad that you like it !
Your tulips are also nice in this time 8)
Hans
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Yes Hans,
the tulips have grown excellent. Also the Muscari latifolium in front of T. sylvestris reached 30cm+ :D
I spread a good dosis of rose fertilizer some weeks ago;D
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Tulipa agenensis ex Cyprus
Tulipa clusiana f. chrysantha
Oh My!!! T. agenensis is a stunner
Every time I get clusiana chrysantha it is wrong. Hans where did you buy them?
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No sign of my T. sylvestris just now but I must look tomorrow
2006 was the last time I took a photo of T. tarda ex Kazakstan in my garden. It 'appeared' in my garden this year. There are three possibilities why I haven't seen it since 2006
1. they died after flowering
2. they didnt flower again until this year
3. they died in 2006 but set seed which has taken 5 years to flower
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A newcomer for me this year, Tulipa raddii
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Hello Zeph !! Happy to see you here ;D
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Every time I get clusiana chrysantha it is wrong. Hans where did you buy them?
Mark :
I got my T.clusiana chrysantha from a friend - his source was Dix
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THanks Hans
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Tulipa agenensis ex Cyprus
Tulipa clusiana f. chrysantha
Oh My!!! T. agenensis is a stunner
I couldn't agree more Hans !! :o :o
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Tulipa agenensis ex Cyprus
Tulipa clusiana f. chrysantha
Oh My!!! T. agenensis is a stunner
Every time I get clusiana chrysantha it is wrong. Hans where did you buy them?
Mark i will take a pic off of mine if its right i can send you some bulbs.
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I couldn't agree more Hans !!
Luc :
and the best is this Tulip agenensis grows without any problems ( free in my border since 10 years ) ;D
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I wonder if anyone has grown the Tulip 'Orange Sunset'? It is billed as a huge flowered cultivar. It sells locally for $4 per bulb and the results have been distressing. The flowers get pinched between the leaves and fail the emerge properly; besides that the interiors of the flowers are quite rotten as they sit there. Seems the rot is so advanced it must have started within the bulb.
johnw
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Even very young seedlings (2nd-3rd year) of T. regelii shows specific leaf pattern.
Janis
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I purchased these last year through a garden centre. One of my favourite tulips.
Note that the cetres of Peppermint Stick are much more brown than the subspecies. Also, the outside colouring is a bit different and consistent.
clusiana clusiana
clusiana clusiana
clusiana Peppermint Stick
clusiana Peppermint Stick
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I purchased these last year through a garden centre. One of my favourite tulips.
Note that the cetres of Peppermint Stick are much more brown than the subspecies. Also, the outside colouring is a bit different and consistent.
clusiana clusiana
clusiana clusiana
clusiana Peppermint Stick
clusiana Peppermint Stick
Very nice indeed Jamie.
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Tulipa hageri from Crete
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This one was very colourful in the garden:
Tulipa hageri 'Little Beauty'
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Tulipa vvedenskyi 'Tangerine Dream' is opening right now.
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I don't think it's T. hageri Wim, but Tulipa humilis
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I don't think it's T. hageri Wim, but Tulipa humilis
Didn't we have this discussion last year? I showed the same cultivar and some were sure it should be under humilis, while others seemed to prefer hageri. I really don't know what seperates these two species. I can say that the plant and flower form look a great deal like what I am growing as humilis Perisan Pearl and humilis albocoerulea oculata. Only the colouring is clearly different.
Whatever the reality, or possibly should we say current verdict, is, I find all of these easy , rewarding garden plants that like my garden (they actually clump-up!), therfore they will stay regardless of their true identities. ;D
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Wim is your Little Beauty, and it is a beauty, upsidedown?
Many gaps in my tulips where I assume the hard freeze killed them
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Wim is your Little Beauty, and it is a beauty, upsidedown?
Mark, not upside down... the front of the trough in which they grow is down.
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Wim is your Little Beauty, and it is a beauty, upsidedown?
No No. The bulbs would be in the air if that were the case. ;D
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I feel I'm not showing enough of my tulips this year. Here are some of my Gavota and T. ostrewskiana
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Tulipa clusiana (photo 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Tulipa iliensis (photo 5)
Tulipa batalani 'Bright Gem' (photo 6)
Tulipa 'Baby Blue' (photo 7 and 8)
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Mark,
Gavota is a superb tulip 8)
Frankie and Jamie
you both have nice clumps of T. clusiana. It is one of my favourite.
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This one was very colourful in the garden:
Tulipa hageri 'Little Beauty'
I really like this little tulip, it increase very quickly and flowers very well every year here.
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I try not to look at this thread! Great danger of another obsession ;D
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I try not to look at this thread! Great danger of another obsession ;D
I know what you mean David.
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Tulipa montana
Said to derive from a collection made by Paul Sintensis (PS898), circa 1900, nr. Suluklu, Turkmenistan.
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Quite a historic plant Gerry and an excellent one at that !! :o
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Tulipa hageri
From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey
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Gerry,
what a colour. Wow!!!!!!!!
See that you are sometimes a very good "bulbkiller" ;D
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I like it too Uli.
These days I don't kill as many bulbs as I used to. Or maybe the ones that have survived are very tough!
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Tulipa batalinii
The true, unhybridised species which seems to be quite uncommon these days.
A gift from Lionel Reuben.
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Here are shots of a group of T. batalini seedlings. I don't know how you tell if they are true or hybrids. The vary in height quite a bit and, as one can see, colouring is variable. I grow the cultivar 'Bronze Charm', which is quite short.
Also, shots of T. orphanidea Flava , which is really a cool looking tulipa.
I've never been able to grow tulips well in any of my previous gardens. They seem to love my current one, though.
(see next post)
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Jamie - The tulip is T.orphanidea; it looks like the variety 'Flava'.
The species T. batalinii has flowers which are entirely pale yellow; the hybrids (with T. linifolia I think) have flowers which are infused with a bronze or apricot colour.
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Thanks, Gerry, on both counts.
Now I need to find seed or bulbs of the true specie, although the hybrid does make a lovely spot of colour.
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Thanks, Gerry, on both counts.
Now I need to find seed or bulbs of the true specie, although the hybrid does make a lovely spot of colour.
Jamie - 'Rare Plants' (Paul Christian) sometimes lists the species. If I get any seed, though I rarely do on tulips, I can send you some.
A further note on T. batalinii: there has long been a body of opinion that it is no more than a semi-albino form of T. linifolia & this is the position adopted by Richard Wilford in his recent book on tulips. He subsumes both the 'species' & the hybrids under T. linifolia Batalinii Group.
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Gerry,
that is enlightening. I've grown the typical T. linifolia from Holland, but never really associated it with T. batalinii. One can only assume that he had good reson to combine the two, although they are visually distinct. Also explains why my 'hybrids' were offered as the species, although that should have been offered as T.linifolia 'Batalini Group' or simply T. linifolia. I guess what ever sells best. ;)
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Here is Tulipa armena from N. E. Turkey - selected because of its sligthly
brownish tinted outside
Gerd
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Gerd,
that is exquisite! What perfect markings and depth of colour. Hope you are propogating it.
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Wakefield 'English' Rectified tulips and Davenport
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Gerd,
that is exquisite! What perfect markings and depth of colour. Hope you are propogating it.
Thanks Jamie - I'll try to multiply it. Have to learn something about the methods.
Gerd
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Some species..
Janis, thanks for comments (later entries) corrections: not acuminata but rather a hybrid. In regard to vvedenskyi I think it might just be that the petals have distorted under glass in the heat
( Label should read T. vvedenskyi )
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Some species..
( Label should read T. vvedenskyi)
The first 100% not acuminata
The last - by color could be, but shape of petals - too strange for T. vvedenskeyi.
Janis
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I think this is end of flowering petals ???
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This year the spring was quite late in our area.
Currently I enjoy only very early flowering kaufmannianas. Would like to show some Z.P. Botschantzeva's kaufmanniana selections from wild.
kaufmanniana 'Sijanie' (transl. 'Shining')
kaufmanniana 'Utro' (transl. 'Morning')
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kaufmanniana 'Voschod Solntza' (transl. 'Sunrise'), Z.P. Botschantzeva
kaufmanniana 'Duplosa'
fosteriana 'Laughing Girl'
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Zhirair,
your T. kaufmannianas are looking superb! 8)
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Thanks Armin!
We had a hail a few days ago, which damaged tulips and me very upset. But when the sun shines and my tulips open my soul again brightens.
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For me the best one is 'Laughing Girl' ::)
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Here the tulip beds of Hortus Bulborum.
If you like to see more images of tulips and other historical bulbs...http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7148.0 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7148.0)
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Hi all ,
if you are interestet for Tulipa sylvestris v.australis ( from Vaucluse ) so please look here :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7176.msg199008#msg199008
Hans
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Lovely Tulips everyone.Great to see the sylvestris in the wild. These are some in mums garden (not ssp.australis). Also does anyone have a name for the other tulip which has a similar manner, growing through shrubs.
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Hans,
I'm pleased to see C. versicolor and T. sylvestris ssp. australis in the wild. Nice redish colors on the sepals. Thanks for the link.
Susan,
the latter resembles T. whittallii. Appears everywere in my garden once settled.
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Hi Armin ,
thank you for your interest ;D
Hans
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Thanks Armin,
It is a lovely Tulip that fits well into the garden growing through shrubs as does T. sylvestris and T. sprengeri. Tulips can sometimes be hard to place in a less formal garden.
Susan
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Susan,
quite right - my garden cannot be called a 'formal' garden, too ;D
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Tulipa altaica
Tulipa clusiana
Tulipa urumiensis
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Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??
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Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??
Tomas,
that looks like the standard T. clusiana clusiana, which differs from the more typical cultivar 'Peppermint' in having an almost black base. I picked some up this past Autumn at my better garden centre. Commercially grown, but sold loose, not packaged.
Jamie
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Tulipa pulchella albocaerula is one of my favourites.
Poul
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Thomas:
Came from the firm of Hoog and Dix in 1999. It has dwindle down to three bulbs from 10.
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I agree with you Poul, it's also one of my favourite !
did you smell it ?? :o
you have a very nice clump, I don't have have one fter some years....
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great to see everyone else has tulips on show. Mine are gone for another year. The last shrivelled and became crisp on their heads for the second year.
Fermi, Will and I went to the botanic gardens in Dublin yesterday. Their annual and tulip beds were stunning and the tulip display beds were also jaw dropping.
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Wow Arnold, that T. clusiana with the dark center looks marvellous.
I guess that's not the standard trade form - where did you get it??
Thomas,
please see here for more C. clusiana's, replies 282 & 284: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2991.270 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2991.270)
:)
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I agree with you Poul, it's also one of my favourite !
did you smell it ?? :o
you have a very nice clump, I don't have have one fter some years....
Fred, I did not smell them, but as I remember they are only lightly fragrant.
If you are interested I can send you some daughter bulbs when I lift them in June.
Poul
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Thanks Jamie, Arnold and Armin. I don't have that form,
just the cultivar 'Lady Jane' which hasnt got that dark center.
Will look for this form next autumn!!!
Poul, wonderful sight of this great tulip.
I tried them several times, but always failed :-[
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thanks for your offer Poul, but I'll wait for my bulbs to increase the clump :)
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Some tulips from my collection.
Would like to show some tulipa tarda cultivars, bred in USSR.
tulipa tarda 'Solneczny Zaiczik' - Y.A. Pastschenko (differs from ordinary tarda by considerably larger sizes, flowers are twise as large, leaves are darker and very wide, bulbs have the size of those of garden tulip; the other difference is bloom shape (petals are elongated)
tulipa tarda 'Solnischko' - Z.M. Silina (this one also has larger sizes and big bulbs, but its main difference is that one bulb produces number of rosettes).
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wild tulipa kaufmannianas, including very interesting semi-double one, selected by Arnis Seisums
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some interesting wild tulipa fosterianas
fosteriana 'Gaujas Nacionalais Parks' - L. Sidrevisc, introduced in USSR in 1981
This one is the best tulipa fosteriana clones, selected by L. Sidrevics (you can read about him in Janis book). Extremely beautiful fosteriana with huge blooms of perfect shape, a real knock out! This is the most beautiful fosteriana I have ever seen!!! I was thought to be lost, and I am very happy to now to have it im my colection. Its only fault is succeptability to botritys of bulbs, which was the reason of ots rejection for registration in The Netherlands.
fosteriana 'Sigulda' - another L. Sidrevics selection from wild, again with huge blooms. The specimen shown is blooming from a daughter bulb.
fosteriana 'Red Prince' (in the foreground) and 'Red Lighthoiuse (in the background, taller one) - J. Ruksans, both are hybrids from open pollination of t. fosteriana, vigorous tulips with gigantic blooms.
fosteriana 'Mr. Dagnia' - J. Ruksans
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some greigiis
greigii 'Dadzitis' - bred by J. Ruksans
greigii 'Kremlevskie Zvezdy' (transl. 'Kremlin Stars') - bred by Y.A. Pastschenko
greigii 'Pandour'
greigii ''Orange Jewel'
greigii 'Engadin'
greigii 'German Flag' - one of my favourites
And finally my most favourite tulip 'Big One' or 'Top Red'
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Zhirair,
thanks for showing a part of your great tulip collection.
Are the larger tardas's just selections from wild or hybrids with other tulips? Which? - do you know?
The diverse fosteriana's and greigii's are all marvelous. Make a big show in any garden.
A pity 'Gaujas Nacionalais Parks' is susceptible to botrytis. Has a very nice black center.
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Armin,
Larger tardas are certainly not hybrids, they are clones. But I am not sure if they are selected from wild or seedlings selected from the crosses of different wild tardas.
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Zhirair,
I see. Thanks for showing them to us.
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Zhirair, it seems to be the best part of the tulip season with you.... thank you so much for sharing these colourful plants with us.
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I am happy to see you enjoyed the photos.
Will show pix of some taller greigiis.
greigii 'Giant Orange Sunrise' - huge blooms with very wide petals
greigii 'Gala Premierre' - differs by its perfect shape of blooms, but a slow increaser
greigii 'Holland Herald' - extreme rarity, one of Lefeber's best introductions, but again increases very slowly
greigii 'Longfellow'
greigii 'Lovely Surprise'
greigii 'Tschaikovsky'
'Lovely Surprise' (foreground) and 'Longfellow' (background) - comparison picture
greigii 'Longfellow'
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Again, some red tulips. Red fosterianas:
fosteriana 'Agamemnon' - blooms few days earlier than similar variety 'Madame Lefeber' and a bit shorter.
fosteriana 'Madame Lefeber' (aka 'Red Emperor') - most famous fosteriana tulip
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fosteriana 'Decamerone' - nowadays a rare tulip, a cross of 'Madame Lefeber' with 'Princeps'. In difference to 'Madame Lefeber', it has shorter, but wider petals, quite a nice shape of bloom.
fosteriana 'Vita' - introduced by J. Ruksans during 80's. Nice tulip with narrow cup-shaped blooms.
fosteriana 'Vita' (left), 'Decamerone (right) (comparison photo)
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Now, Zhirair, tell us the truth... you REALLY like the red tulips, don't you?!! ;)
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Maggi,
I just adore red tulips and my opinion is - "Nothing is best than a red tulip".
What is the most interesting - a 20 years ago when I started to establish my collection I was searching any tulip, but not reds, as reds were very ordinary to my eyes and very common. As it happens with many - We like the ones we see less, a subjective point of thinking. But after a period of time when I already had all colours and shapes and all became ordinary for me, I realized that red tulips are definately the best and nothing can bit them.
There is a such saying:
The daffodill asks the Tulip: 'Why are you so popular? I very much would like to know the secret of your success'. And the answer is: "Because I am red".
So for variebility I post photos of yellow fosteriana.
fosteriana 'Grand Prix'
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You prove your point well, Zhirair... the beauty of Grand Prix is made by its wonderful red markings.... the inside is perfect, isn't it!
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I adore the red tulips too. 8) They are the most brilliant among all the others and make a big show when in bloom.
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Specially for you some m ore red tulips.
This time greigiis
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Some other interesting tulips
greigii 'Saulriets' (in groups)
Darwin 'Ataturk'
Breeder 'Babuschkiny Skazky' - bred in Ukraine
Breeder 'Indian Cheif' - most famous breeder tulips, which unfortunately is lost in Holland, and even not preserved in Hortus Bulborum. I am extremely proud and happy that eventually I managed to get it. That was one of my main goals to have this tulip in my collection.
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Specially for you some m ore red tulips.
This time greigiis
Zhirair,
grandiose red greigii tulips with nice foliage :o 8) 8)
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Great tulips Zhirair
That Ataturk looks like a candle^^
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Wonderful collection Zhirair.
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I am very pleased you liked the shots.
Some pix from today
DHT 'Hollands Glorie' (left) and its sport 'My Lady' (right) - the largest flowered DHT tulips with length of bloom up to 14 cm. In shape they resemble tulipa fosteriana and initially were classified in Fosteriana group
DHT 'Hollands Glorie'
DHT 'My Lady' and my brother-in-law's daughter, a good comparison photo to make an idea about the size of bloom
Double DHT - 'Miranda'
me with 'Hollands Glorie' and 'My Lady' tulips
me removing weeds
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Zhirair,
I'm always impressed by the high, the healthy foliage and the colours of your tulips.
Wonderful pictures.
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Zhirair,your tulips are stunning.
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A shot of a tulip which caught my eye in a County Durham garden. I don't know the name but it as they say "quite bonny"
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T.altaica var sinensis and iliense pygmy individual
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A shot of a tulip which caught my eye in a County Durham garden. I don't know the name but it as they say "quite bonny"
It may well be 'Artist' Frazer, see this link
http://www.angliabulbs.com/products_info.php?manufacturers_id=5&products_id=544&season=spring
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A shot of a tulip which caught my eye in a County Durham garden. I don't know the name but it as they say "quite bonny"
It may well be 'Artist' Frazer, see this link
http://www.angliabulbs.com/products_info.php?manufacturers_id=5&products_id=544&season=spring
Brian,thanks it certainly seems right and aptly named. One can always count on the forum for identification.
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A report on the 176th W&NETS tulip show can be found at
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5434.30 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5434.30)
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Another set of tulips
fosteriana 'Feu Superbe'
fosteriana 'Lenin's Memorial' - bred by D.W. Lefeber
fosteriana 'Ranitza' - bred in Belorus during 80s
greigii 'Haute Couture' - huge blooms
gregii 'Love Desire' - selected by J. Ruksans from wild, introduced in 1985 (not to be mistaken with his vvedenskyi hybrid under the same name offered in his last catalogues)
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Single Early 'Flair'
Triumph 'Julia' - bred in USSR, absolutely resistant to virus
Triumph 'Margarita' - bred in Lithuania during 80s
Triumph 'National Velvet'
Darwin Hybrid 'Golden Parade'
Darwin Hybrid 'Tender Beauty'
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SLG/Breeder 'Cherbourg'
SLG/Breeder 'Dymka' - bred in USSR by Z.M. Silina before 1965
SLG/Breeder 'Dymka'
SLG/Breeder 'Irish Coffee' - extreme rarity
SLG/Breeder 'Mabel Lorentz'
Breeder 'Mabel Lorentz', then Breeder 'Indian Chief', then Darwin 'Pride of Haarlem', then Darwin 'Ataturk'
SLG/Breeder 'Professor Schotel'
SLG/Darwin 'Pride of Haarlem'
SLG/Darwin 'Black Leader' - near black tulip
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Black leaders are truely leaders :)
Thanks Zhirair
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Zhirair
Great selection, thanks for sharing your plants with us.
I agree with Arda, "Black Leader" is superb.
Frazer
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Zhirair, your cultivar collection is very impressive. Thanks for showing many I've never seen before 8)
Triumph 'Julia' - bred in USSR, absolutely resistant to virus
What's the biological basis for this virus resistance do you think?
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Some unnamed tulips which I enjoyed recently..
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Is it really Tulipa hageri I have
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Zhirair, your cultivar collection is very impressive. Thanks for showing many I've never seen before 8)
Triumph 'Julia' - bred in USSR, absolutely resistant to virus
What's the biological basis for this virus resistance do you think?
Ashley,
I suppose this is because Julia is interpspecific hybrid with a wild tulip as a mother parent, from which it inherited virus resistance. Unfortunately, I don't know the species name, which was used as a mother parent (the breeder didn't tell me). I only know its father, which is a triumph tulip.
Besides its virus resistance it also have other merits. It is quite decorative, long lasting ans has a large bright colourful base. I attache its photo in an open phase. You can evaluate its beauty by yourself.
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A truly amazing collection Zhirair !!!! :o :o :o :o
Thanks for sharing !
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I've discovered a website which sells heirloom tulips today. Unfortunately they don't export to other countries =(
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Hello,
I was looking in some other pages of this forum and found tulipa 2011.
My real thing is allium, but I also have been making crossing in tulips for over 25 years now.
Here some nice pictures of some new tulips we "made"
we are working to get new tulips for use as cutflower, but now and then we find some only good for use in the flower garden like these 3 photo's
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Wietse,
Wellcome to the Forum!!!
I am very pleased you had a look at the tulipa page. Your viridiflora tulips are beautiful!!! Good breeding result! 25 years of breeding experience sonds quite serious.
I had a look at your pictures posted in the forum and the ones in your web-site. You have a wonderful allium collection! Before, because of land shortage, I mainly concentrated in tulips, but now with obtaining an extra land, I started to expand my collection with other beutiful bulbous plants, including allium.
Arda,
What website have you discovered, retlated to heirloom tulips?
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Zhirair,
http://www.oldhousegardens.com/
Probably this website is known to many of you.
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Zhirair,
http://www.oldhousegardens.com/
Probably this website is known to many of you.
Arda,
I know this website. They offer very limited range and mainly virused tulips. The same varieties every year.
Peter C. Nijssen
http://www.pcnijssen.nl/shop/
Offers wider range with reasonable prices and I think they might export to Turkey.
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Thank you so much!
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Do you know any other heirloom selling websites?
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Arda,
There are some offering very few varieties. Peter C. Nijssen is the best.
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This website has some language code problems I guess. And I couldn't find some cultivars which were in oldhousegarden
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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. :-\
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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
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Tulipa hageri
From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey
Do you know where exactly in W. Turkey?
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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.
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Tulipa hageri
From a collection by Norman Stevens, W. Turkey
Do you know where exactly in W. Turkey?
Arda - Sorry, I don't.
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There are insects on my tulips' leaves.. They are black and not moving. What should I do?
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There are insects on my tulips' leaves.. They are black and not moving. What should I do?
Kiss of life? :D
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Arda, ignore Ranunculus and his jokes :-X
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.
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My apologies, Arda ... I couldn't resist. :D
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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 :)
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Are these the Tulips from the southern hemisphere Arda?
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ranunculus,
It's ok :) I like jokes
PeterT,
Yes they are.
Thank you all for your concern
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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.
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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
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Gardening Illustrated (no 189, vol IV, 21 October 1882) advises that "Ground for these [tulipa] must now be prepared, as planting time is at hand; the surface of the beds cannot be turned over too often when they are dry. Look over the bulbs and see that they are in good condition. Some sharp and and good rotten turfy loam should be in readiness"
well, only a few more weeks to go!
An advert from the magazine - James Veitch &Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea presents 100 early single tulips for 5s 6d per 100 (oh how it takes one back, but obviously not to 1882! For younger members 5s 6d is 27.5p but taking into account over 120 years of compound inflation would now be a small fortune).
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27 1/2 new pence -still a lot of money. fancy plants then were the perogative of the very wealthy.
Have you read Jane Austin's "Emma" (I think it was this one) -Emma thinks that the vicars wife has ideas way above her station, because the vicars wife planted a shrubbery!
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A good resource for tulips is the recently redesigned website for the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society It now provides a good deal more of relevant information.Worth checking out!
http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/
(http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/)
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A good resource for tulips is the recently redesigned website for the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society It now provides a good deal more of relevant information.Worth checking out!
http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/
(http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/)
Frazer,
Thanks a lot for the news! I checked the web-site and saw they put more info. And I even saw the new bizarre tulip 'Lemuria. Glad to see that hybridising with ENGLISH FLORISTS' TULIPS goes on nowadays. Hope, to see more updates.
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New book for Tulip Lovers
I was very happy to find information about this book on the VRV forum...
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=565.0
Followers of Luit's superb thread, the "Connoiseur Collection" .....
( http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1331.0 )
will know of the remakable Dutch grower Kees (Cees) Breed. This man has one of the most astonishing private collections of bulbs imaginable. A particular favourite of his are the tulips and he has a world class collection made since the 1950s of old and special rare tulips...around 1900 varieties ... many of them historical types, most lost to general cultivation many years ago. Some date back to the time of Clusius and Tulipomania!
A new book is available, price 19 euros... with 100 photographs of lost or forgotten tulip varieties from the collection of Mr Breed.
The book has been produced by his son, Eric Breed.
The book may be ordered by email :
info@tulippictures.eu
More information is here :
http://www.tulippictures.eu/LOST+TULIPS/
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Details of tulip shows for 2012can be obtained from the folowing website:
http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/index.php/membership (http://www.tulipsociety.co.uk/index.php/membership)
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Europeans are really good at these society things. I admire you.