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Todd Boland
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Tulips 2011
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April 29, 2011, 06:40:29 PM »
Surprised no one has started this before now as I am sure I am among the last people to have blooming tulips. Only two open yet...Tulipa turkestanica and Tulipa kaufmanniana.
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Todd Boland
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Re: Tulips 2011
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April 30, 2011, 06:39:44 AM »
Nice Todd! Tulips are just starting to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in ON...but we're a little south of you. At the NJ garden I had a few last week with more on the way.
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Carlo A. Balistrieri
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Re: Tulips 2011
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May 10, 2011, 06:31:00 AM »
There have been some very good Tulipa species I've wanted to show here, but time got the better of me. Todd, I like
T. turkestanica
, one that I do not grow yet, but I do grow the similar
T. bifloriformis
which has dark brown anthers, always the first species to bloom here.
Some bright hybrids in bloom recently, looking happy on a warm sunny spring day, the rock-garden sized and long lived
'Little Princess'
(orange), the rose-red blue-centered
'Little Beauty'
, and perhaps my favorite Tulipa of all,
T. clusiana 'Lady Jane'
, considerably taller, with exceptionally narrow silver leaves and willowy stems and outsized lily-flowered blooms, swaying back and forth in the slightest breeze, the epitome of elegance.
One that I'm not so fond of, is
T. ferganica
, the flowers are nice but the foliage is too course and husky for my taste. In the lower center is a single bulb left of
T. montana
(yellow form) with undulate leaf margins, wish I had more of this one left.
Side note: many of these tulips are fragrant at close hand.
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Mark McDonough
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Re: Tulips 2011
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May 11, 2011, 06:24:48 AM »
Nice tulips, Mark! I have that 'Little Beauty' too - isn't it a humilis cultivar?
It is a stable and slowly increasing bulb here but I grow it together with other plants.
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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May 11, 2011, 04:10:11 PM »
I have one that works well in my dry garden. I like the gray leaves and pale yellow flowers. Here is Tulipa batalinii
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Well, I missed
T. turkestanica
(having to work late last week) but
T. tarda
cheers me up considerably!
T. kaufmaniana
cultivars are starting too:
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Quote from: Hoy on May 11, 2011, 06:24:48 AM
Nice tulips, Mark! I have that 'Little Beauty' too - isn't it a humilis cultivar?
It is a stable and slowly increasing bulb here but I grow it together with other plants.
Trond,
here it's often sold as a hageri cultivar but I would think it's a humilis cultivar too. Anyhow, a very nice little tulip.
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