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Fermi

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Tulips 2014
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2014, 04:31:43 AM »
A new tulip in our garden,
Tulipa montana
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« Last Edit: August 28, 2014, 02:50:16 PM by Fermi »
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2014, 02:49:55 PM »
Tulipa bakeri (now Tulipa saxatilis ssp bakeri - I find that the difference is that it doesn't "run" the way the species does)
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2014, 03:02:41 PM »
Tulipa greiggii - possibly 'Red Riding Hood'
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2014, 12:54:04 PM »
The Lady Tulip, Tulipa clusiana,
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Daisy

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2014, 06:52:17 AM »
I love seeing the photos of your spring bulbs Fermi.
Seeing the tulips, reminds me of my frustration when I was working full time in England. They would open on sunny days, but would be closed tightly by the time I came home.
If the weekends were cloudy, the whole season would be gone without my ever seeing their open flowers.
Working sucks. Retirement rules, yeah!
Daisy :)
Amateur gardener, who has gardened in Surrey and Cornwall, England, but now has a tiny garden facing north west, near the coast in north east Crete. It is 300 meters above sea level. On a steep learning curve!!! Member of both MGS and RHS

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2014, 02:18:24 PM »
Daisy,
I have to work a bit longer to be able to afford to garden! especially as we continue to buy new plants ;D
A new addition in the tulip line is this patch of double tulip 'Matrix' - they were planted rather late which might be why the stems are so short :-\
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2014, 02:42:50 PM »
Tulipa kolpakowskiana fergana group looks good when the sun is shining,
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2014, 01:57:43 AM »
This is Tulipa chrysantha (syn T. clusiana ssp chrysantha) 'Tubergen's Gem'
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Trevor Australis

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2014, 09:18:25 AM »
Yes, but where can I get the Lady Tulip - white and pink. I had it years ago from an old guy in Sebastapol nr Ballarat and it made a great show for a long time but then petered out. I'd love to have it again now I am a bit more experienced in bulb growing.
M Land. Arch., B. Sp. Ed. Teacher, traveller and usually climate compatible.

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2014, 01:52:23 PM »
Hi Trevor,
You mean the one in reply #3 above? ;D
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #25 on: September 25, 2014, 05:09:58 PM »
I also grew Tulipa clusiana for many years in England, but have been unable to find it now.
There are plenty of named varieties, but the original is difficult to find.
One supplier told me that they are in short supply world wide. I don't know how true that is, but it is a bit worrying.
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Trevor Australis

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2014, 11:04:56 PM »
Yes Fermi #3. I have two kinds of the yellow and red variation on T. clusiana but they lack the finesse of the pink and white kind.
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2014, 07:12:12 AM »
Yes Fermi #3. I have two kinds of the yellow and red variation on T. clusiana but they lack the finesse of the pink and white kind.
Hi Trevor,
the type species with pink exterior to the white flowers and a central purple blotch is one of the tulips that does well here in central Victoria. It multiplies quickly by underground "runners" or stolons so I'm sure I can spare you some if you can remind me in the summer. I also grow the red/yellow and the pink/primrose ('Cynthia') types as well as a dwarf ("T. aitchisonii ssp. clusioides") and I've flowered another variation which is a seedling from the selection 'Lady Jane' which doesn't have the basal blotch,
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Trevor Australis

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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2014, 12:00:40 AM »
Thanks Fermi. I will remind you later.
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2014, 03:53:29 PM »
My memory is getting worse all the time ("old-timers' disease" I'm afraid! ;D ) so you'll need to do that, Trevor. I'm still trying to remember the botanical name for a very common plant and I'm determined not to look it up before I think of it! (or forget that I was trying to think of it!)
Here are a few more tulips in bloom:
Tulipa hageri
Tulipa batalinii
Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia' x 2
Tulipa albertii ( it might be T. vvedenskyi, I'm told - but my supplier imported it from Hoog many years ago as T. albertii)
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!