Tulips

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Alisdair

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Re: Tulipa clusiana
« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2014, 09:37:41 AM »
For Daisy and others looking for Tulipa clusiana, these two UK firms usually have it and do mail order:
Pottertons www.pottertons.co.uk
De Jager www.dejager.co.uk
Cynthia incidentally comes reasonably true from seed. But when I planted it out in our hot Greek garden it dwindled away and has now disappeared.
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2014, 05:48:37 AM »
In Australia Tulipa 'Little Princess' is often supplied when you request T. hageri, one of its parents,
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Re: Tulips 2014
« Reply #32 on: October 08, 2014, 12:52:06 PM »
Some hybrids in flower now:
'Sky High Scarlet'
'Ballade White'
'Moonshine' x 2
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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Daisy

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Re: Darwin tulips
« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2015, 08:45:17 AM »
My local Lidl store had a selection of bulbs for sale last autumn.
There is no sign of the hyacinths I bought, but the Darwin tulips have been doing well.
Daisy :)

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Hilary

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Re: Darwin tulips
« Reply #34 on: February 10, 2015, 05:42:53 PM »
Daisy,
Your tulips are really lovely.
 The photos have cheered me up these last two days when everything which fell over in the last two storms fell over again in this one.
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Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Daisy

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Re: Darwin tulips
« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2015, 06:12:53 AM »
Thanks Hilary. I should have taken a few more photos whilst I could.
I am sitting inside now, listening to the gale force wind, howl around the house and down the chimney.
Looking straight ahead out of the balcony doors, I can see the Mediterranean Sea white with spume, all along the shore.
I hate to think what is happening to my garden at present :o
This storm is forecast until the weekend.
At least we will get some rain with it.
Daisy :)

 
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Tulips
« Reply #36 on: June 03, 2015, 04:05:18 PM »
In the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, April
according to the labels they are
Tulipa 'Vendee Globe'
and
Tulipa ;Beau Monde'
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Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

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Re: Tulips
« Reply #37 on: October 01, 2015, 02:46:16 PM »
We've had a good season for tulips!
The earliest one was in early August, a seed raised Tulipa orthopoda - very tiny and easy to miss!
Next was the pale Tulipa cretica in early September
A few days later a "stray" Tulipa kaufmanniana which was supposed to be something else!
It was supposed to be this Tulipa kolpakowskiana which opened a week later
Also in flower in mid-September was Tulipa stapfii
and Tulipa clusiana
Tulipa 'Toronto' has been re-introduced to the garden
And a few seedlings raised from Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' opened in the rock garden through a carpet of artemisia
A few days later Tulipa montana opened a flower
Last year I posted a pic of this as T.kolpakowskiana but I've been told it's actually in the Tulipa ferganica group!
Tulipa 'Little Princess' last week,
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Re: Tulips
« Reply #38 on: October 02, 2015, 01:29:05 PM »
A few more tulips:
This came as Tulipa hageri 'Piccolo' but looks the same as 'Little Princess' to me!
Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia' spreads a little by stolons;
One of the Apeldoorn clan of hybrids in orange
A deep pink Double Tulip
Double tulip 'Verona'
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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working as a physio to support my gardening habit!

Daisy

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Re: Tulips
« Reply #39 on: October 04, 2015, 08:23:27 AM »
Thanks for the photos Fermi. They are all lovely, but my favourite are the cluisiana  tulips. I have loved these since the 1960s when I first saw them in Kew Gardens.
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Re: Tulips
« Reply #40 on: October 04, 2015, 12:49:04 PM »
Thanks for the photos Fermi. They are all lovely, but my favourite are the cluisiana  tulips. I have loved these since the 1960s when I first saw them in Kew Gardens.
Daisy :)
Hi Daisy,
one of my favourites as well, though "The Lady Tulip" does have a tendency to "run" - as here where it has travelled from one side of the bed to the other through a narrow gap!
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fermi
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Re: Tulips
« Reply #41 on: October 06, 2015, 11:58:01 AM »
The "Viridiflora" types appeal to some but not everyone; this is 'Spring Green' which can look stunning when well-grown.
These were planted late and I think are a bit stunted,
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Alisdair

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Re: Tulips
« Reply #42 on: October 08, 2015, 10:08:24 AM »
Thanks from all of us northern hemisphere people for this wonderful promise of spring, Fermi; fantastic photos as usual!  :P
Alisdair Aird
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Hilary

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Re: Tulips
« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2016, 10:56:16 AM »
I thought I would have a few tulips in a pot this year but the hot February we had seemed to upset them.
The first ones opened out flat and not the tulip shape I expected.
Later one solitary tulip emerged in a well behaved fashion.
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

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Re: Tulips - 2016
« Reply #44 on: August 30, 2016, 10:01:36 AM »
Our first tulips this season:
Tulipa cretica, flowering well,
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fermi
Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!