Bulbs: Hey, let's see those tulips!, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
claypa, the ones which set years ago were near hte south wall, doubles Mount Tacoma and Lilac Perfection

http://www.blomsbulbs.com/catalog/flowers.cfm?ItemID=0345

http://nga-gardenshop.stores.yahoo.net/31-2310.html

They made masses of large seeds and I think may have still been there but we had a very cold winter and I think squirrels ate them, I had perfect holes! A couple carried on for a while but gave up eventually.

I also had some seeds on Shakespeare which is a species type, and I WAS going to try growing them but moles mowed through the stems before they matured!

I guess it would be the pure species which would make seed best, but many which we buy are not true species but 'species types'

I posted this on other threads, I think it's a cross between single red and yellows as it's not flowered since I replanted them in 1999 but the reds and yellows flower every year reliably. I think I did see a seed pod on a very large red one last year but didn't keep an eye on it, so they probably did set seed at some time. I don't know the names of them but found some I thought they might be, T Appeldoorn, I found a pic of a red one and it's the same,

http://anna.watchtan.com/?pg=2

Here's my orange (red pin stripes on yellow), which I think is a cross,