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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Armin on April 20, 2011, 09:50:34 PM
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The Hortus Bulborum in Limmen, NL, is the only museum garden in the world where you can find over 4,200 spring-flowering historical bulbs... :o
It was established 1928 and this collection consists primarily of tulips, narcissus and hyacinths, but there is also a small number of fritillaria and crocus.
Last weekend my wife and I revisited this fantastic location with good Dutch friends... :-*
Here are some impressions for warming up...
Link Hortus Bulborum http://www.hortus-bulborum.nl/english (http://www.hortus-bulborum.nl/english)
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Armin,
What a fireworks of colours! Well worth a visit!
Thank you for showing it.
Gerd
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Wow! Looks fascinating - a forum visit next year perhaps....
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More please Armin? ;D
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Yes please :)
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Thanks for the comments. I can recommend a visit. ;)
Here's the next batch...
Hyacinths. If only the PC could reproduce the intense sweet fragrance whiffing over when you come close or pass by a hyacinth field.
This is something special when you visit South-or North of Holland now.
My visit was not focused on the hyacinths but after having seen the high number of cultivars, forms and colors it could become another passion.
Interesting the H. orientalis beds in blue and white.
There were many other colors, different in size and shape, semi-filled flowers ect.
My personal eye-catcher were cv. Kronos (1982) with the darkest blue of all, the most reddish old cv. Distinction (1880), and an unusual color cv. Miss Saigon (2002).
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Oh! I see Vroni and Luit :D :D
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Morning Maggi,
you must have either sharp eyes or an extra wide sceen ;D
Well done!
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Thanks for a fascinating report Armin 8)
Kronos reminds me of an unknown favourite in my garden with stem and floret bases almost black.
Great too to see the multiflorus types which seem to be under-appreciated, at least on the off-shore islands ;)
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Next images are Narcissus. There are about 1000 admiring cultivars and species in this garden.
They are now in the 3 year growing on the same place. After this season all bulbs will be lifted and planted on another field in autuum according to an official.
I saw this field already in 2009 when I visited Hortus Bulborum the first time - they have nicely clumped up since then.
What amazed and excited me most is the growing height and size - 60 cm and more is normal!
In my garden the same cultivars may reach 30% less at a maximum.
This fabulous growth is a combination of climate (cool sea climate), soil (fine sand), moist (high water level in spring) and excellent fertilizer regime, knowledge of best growing.
It was impossible to walk through the paths without damaging the flowers - so I kept off and took pictures from outside.
What attract me where the small cuped ones (flower-Ø 7cm!). Crenver (introduced before 1927), Firetail (<1910) and N. poeticus 'Ornatus Max.'
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Thanks for a fascinating report Armin 8)
Kronos reminds me of an unknown favourite in my garden with stem and floret bases almost black.
Great too to see the multiflorus types which seem to be under-appreciated, at least on the off-shore islands ;)
Ashley,
the amount of cultivars is amazing in this garden. One could spent hours just for the lovely hyacinths :D
It was impossible to take photos of them all :D
Hope your unkown is Kronos - it is really dark blue. The camera does not reproduce the colors 100%.
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Armin
So many places to visit if I had the means. The photos in this thread are utterly mind boggling.
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Morning Maggi,
you must have either sharp eyes or an extra wide sceen ;D
Well done!
I am not so sure about that? She missed Barbara ::) ::) :P
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Pat, I'm pleased you like the images. :D
The next batch of images concentrates on Tulips:
1593 botanist Carolus Clusius planted a handful of tulip bulbs in a small garden at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
The act is considered by the Dutch as the birth of their famous flower business.
The historical 'Duc van Tol' -tiny single flowering early tulips- go back to the year 1595. I show you the old red and yellow versions as represenatives of the pioneering times...
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.
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Morning Maggi,
you must have either sharp eyes or an extra wide sceen ;D
Well done!
I am not so sure about that? She missed Barbara ::) ::) :P
Luit, the 'grand dame' prefers to stay in the background ;) ;D
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Luit, you are too hard on me.... I have not met Barbara.... Frau Ruby, I assume?
A coincidence, since Frau Joschko is also Barbara :)
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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
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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.
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Zhirair,
some more magic tulip photos will follow... ;)
Luit, a nice shot of ' two ladies on a bench' :)
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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.
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Again, wondeful shots Armin!!!!!!
Thanks for showing, sharing your impressions and letting us vertually to be present at HB.
I especially liked T. biebersteiniana.
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Zhirair,
one day I hope you can visit HB ;) ;D
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So many fine tulips Armin :o
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.
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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.
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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.
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Nevertheless errors occurred I'll continue to glut this page with more tulip images ;D
You may have wondered why still no red T. greigii was shown...
Here some unusual beauties with very large flowers.
T. greigii Fire of Love - unbelieveable colored leaves makes this already a stunner without a flower. The red flower sits on a short stem - introduced 2004.
T. greigii Graceful - a suitable name to this beautiful tulip from 1965.
T. greigii Karimata - this season not as large as 2 years before but still a cracker. From 1982.
T. greigii Quicksilver - from 1960. Resembles Karimata but has additional red blotches inside flower head.
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here some more images... :P
T. praecox: has the thickest stem of all tulips - certainly a good choice for places with strong winds
T. praestans: nice multiflowered tulip with bicolored leaves - Bloemlust 1995, Red Sun & Shogun introduced 2000
T. stapfii: nice contrast - already in culture since 1934
T. tschimganica: 2 forms red and yellow
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You have almost reached the end when you read this :D
For the small size tulip lovers I show the differences between T. humilis 'Zephyr' and T. kurdica (2 flower forms). Not easy to distinguish.
Last comment:
If you like to visit Hortus Bulborum usual mof April is the best time.
South and North Holland still have many interesting places to visit...