Hey, let's see those tulips!

'Quebec'

This little pastel beauty is 'Elise'

Wow Neal, you have so many! I would love to have a wander through all those!

I got a pack of Monte Carlo from the supermarket, and do they ever sell the correct thing now? The first ones I got from there years ago were correct but it seems nearly everything now is not!

Any clues, it's a little taller than Monte Carlo and isn't scented! The centre is more of a compact frilly double although I haven't seen them fully open, colour pale yellow with green streaking.

Thanks, Janet! I think all those last pics are from bargain bin binges last fall, LOL. Your double looks like it may mature to cream/white, hopefully with the green streaking remaining- that would be nice. Still looks to be from the Early Double class; I thought most of those were fragrant- perhaps some scent will come as it matures. The box stores here that sell bulbs are a gamble too, and it drives me nuts when the color is wrong where it is positioned. I've been known to cut every bloom and bring them inside because the color harmony did'nt work for me, lol.

I can detect a very faint scent, simialr to the honey scent of Monte Carlo which is powerful, but then it could be wishful thinking!

It's quite pretty, but not Monte Carlo!

Sure are some beautiful tulips posted..
The freeze got most of mine...but I have some that weren't up...
bloomin out now...
Nana went thru Hanson Sat on the way to Market Place...thought about ya...
We should try and get together one of these days and have coffee/tea...
Peggy

White emperor tulips

Here is Queen of the Night growing with Iris Cat's Eye

This is my first year to have tulips. Now that the petals are gone, what do I do? There's some pod looking things at the top of the stems. Do I save those? And when do I cut the foliage back? I figure all you tulips experts won't steer me wrong :)

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Hi chef_tish, the pods will be seed pods, some make seeds but most don't. Leave the foliage to die back naturally, it will feed the bulb for next years flowers. Some tulips don't live for long, others will keep coming back, it depends on where you are and which tulips you grow.

If you wanted to lift them you can after they have died off and store them, but some just split into smaller bulbs so it's often a good idea to leave them to see if they return. I have some which set seed and flowered 7 years later, the originals disappeared after 2 or 3 years, they were doubles. I had kept a lot of seed from them but didn't sow it!

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Thank you, Wallaby. I plan on leaving the bulbs in the ground. It makes me excited to see what will happen next spring! I'll look in all the seed pods after trimming the foliage - maybe I'll get lucky and have some seeds to sow, too. I bought my bulbs at Wal-mart last fall and didn't save the info on what I planted. But I had some beautiful big red and yellow tulips, some shorter kind of striped tulips, then some very interesting curved looking ones. I hope they come back. Here's a pic of my big red ones before they opened.

Here's a closeup

Nice tulips everybody...I love the white Emperor with the daffs too, they help tone down the raging yellow that can be a little too much with all the Forsythias going at the same time (for me here anyway)

wallaby, what tulips are most likely to set viable seeds? Species, I guess?
I hope to have a few pictures to post in the next few days, lots of buds :)

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,

Here's the red one

Love all the tulip pics, everyone!

Went up to Chicago with my DH yesterday to see the City of Chicago tulip festival on Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive--hundreds of thousands of tulips planted in the median strips and parks. But, alas! I was about a week too early! Nothing much blooming but great prospects in about 10 days for bloom so if anyone is thinking about a visit to Chicago, I recommend taking it in the next couple of weeks.

(The Art Institute has a wonderful exhibit about 'Vollard and the Impressionists' that is not to be missed, either!)

This pic is a little corny and doesn't really give an accurate impression of the huge tulip plantings along the avenues...

Would love to be in Chicago in the next week or so! Anyone out there who goes, please share pics with us :)

With tulips, it is the species that really capture my heart. These are 'Little Princess'

critterologist, remember when you sent me these?

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I've really enjoyed them with the gold lysimachia; such a pretty echo of the yellow in the throat.

T.sylvestris is new to me this year. I love the shape of the blooms!

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Look wallaby1, these look similar to yours! These actually opened primrose yellow and have deepened to this nice orange color.

They do have similarities gemini! I love the oranges in tulips, it makes a refreshing change, they stand out like beacons.

There is a species I came across which looks like the red Appeldoorn, but of course much smaller, on www.miniaturebulbs.co.uk called 'julia' with a small 'j' , not sure if that is actually a species name

http://www.miniaturebulbs.co.uk/acatalog/tulipa_sp2.html

I placed an order with them yesterday so next year is going to be VERY exciting!

Tulips I ordered are clusiana Tinka, ferganica, humilis 'alba caerulea oculata rosea', humilis Little Beauty, iliensis.

Besides those I ordered Fritillaria whittallii, Narcissus bulbocodium conspicuus, N. noblis var. nobilis, N. tazetta var. odoratus which is apricot scented! Now I hope the harvest goes off OK.

This shows the size of mine, not quite as big as the red but impressive!

This delicate beauty is one of the self sets from the two doubles, it's second year flowering.

Ooh, Neal, I love the way you've got those little tulips nestled up around that tree trunk! I'm glad they've done well for you. I missed a few when I was digging those (they were supposed to have been 'Little Beauty' but were mislabeled), and I have a couple of patches to get up this spring that have been promised to Thripmaster... I was hoping to get them to her last year, but in waiting for the foliage to die back before digging, I waited too long and lost their location LOL.

The first 'Little Beauty' popped open by my side walkway today... and I also have a Greggii tulip that's about to open its bloom... Here's 'Persian Pearl' blooming in the corner of the walkway, a lovely color echo to my new 'Woodstock' hyacinths and to the veining on the 'Bloody Dock' leaves!

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Gorgeous color echo! LOVE it!

LOL, you can see why the orange 'Little Princess' tulips just didn't fit with the purple/burgundy theme I've got going with that bed! A little while ago, I had Crocus tom. 'Ruby Giant' blooming like mad all along the paver walkway where the hyacinths are now, and soon the 'Little Beauty' tulips will be in their glory there. It's been fun to see that little bed start coming together and filling in with something a little different in each season.

A wider view, showing more of the Hyacinths -- I know it's a tulip thread, but I just love the color on 'Woodstock'!

And yes, that's a rope light going along the edge of the bed by the path... I mentioned to DH last fall that I thought those would work well to give a little light along the path, but he didn't like the idea of running them right on top of the ground... but when we went to get our Christmas tree, he spotted these little plastic pegs that hold them up a few inches, and that's really worked out well so far. :-)

This is my first year with these tulips and they are now my favorite. These Orange Greenland Tulips are fully opened and have stayed this way now for several days.

Nana3

Pretty Greenlands Nana.

Of course, I HAD to get some 'Little Beauty' too, LOL.

'Sorbet' and behind, a little of the new landscape surrounding me now!

'Ollioules'

Nice, gemini-sage! Plantfiles could use another picture of that 'Little Beauty'. Here's some T. clusiana 'Lady Jane' pictures.

These flowers are either closed up tightly or splayed wide open - it's rainy and cloudy today so they're kind of in-between.

That last picture you can see some Narcissus 'Avalanche' among the grocery store tulips. Here's a top view of the Lady Janes, they have yellow centers. Pretty neat.

Nice! My 'Lady Jane' tulips haven't shown up yet this year..... hmmm, maybe some dang vole ate them.

I am ashamed to admit it, but I left my poor spring bulbs in the box they were shipped in and didn't open it until January. Needless to say, mold was rampant and many were ruined. Of the tulips, none of the Uncle Tom, Menton, or Miranda came up. The 3 cultivars that did look like mutated versions (coloring and even petal shape is off). Here's Shirley:

Here's Apeldoorn:

this one is Double Dutch