OK, who has Tulips?

lol! i planted the snaps last fall. they bloomed for a month or so and then just sat there growing bigger all winter. just started blooming again, but what a show! unfortuneatly, they will fizzle out when the weather gets hot, which will be in about 5 minutes! lol we cant grow pansies, petunias, snaps, etc. etc, except in the fall thru winter, they just cant take the heat of our summers. look at it this way, in August your plants are crispy critters, even after watering them all summer!

tracie

here is anther photo of a mixed bed with daffs, mostly Ice Follies, snaps and a white delphinium in the background

Sooooo pretty Tracie! Are those Painted Daisies just beyond the clump of Cream Upstar? Those are gorgeous too! I have wintersown Painted daisies sprouting now!

Terrific job you've done with your tulips, daffs and other plants in your garden, Tracie. I really like the natural look you've created!

Thank you! actually, they are Marguerite Daisies. i love the different shades of light to dark pink on the same plant.

tracie

Creme Upstar is very pretty aggie. I like the yellow with red spashes too, it looks like a double.

My T. praestans Unicum are in a hurry, one was open today but it was still in the shade then and it's very difficult to get a decent pic of. Later they were closed.

This Princess Irene must have come back from last year because i didn't plant any this year. That's rare here in Ga, but I'm thrilled!
jo

I confess to a weakness for Mickey.

Can't remember what any of these are..

Early double Tulips in Holland>

Tulips in the park in Paris>

Angelique tulips w/forget-me-nots>

Georgia Jo, they are not known to be perennial here either but I have had a bunch return for me as well! A few posts of mine above I have five pinkish purple tulips that returned from last year. I pinched most of those off today but I have a bunch more coming up! Again not as big as last year but otherwise in good form. I didn't plant anything here this past fall so these have to be returning....I didn't expect them to come back so now it's a crowded mess! LOL

not a great pic, has been overcast and rainy here for the last couple of days. we had a period of really heavy rain, kinda messed up my larger daffs, tulips and broke some flower stalks off of my delphiniums! :( these were just called mixed color doubles.

tracie

We got some rain today too, aggie...really hard at work but not so hard at home.

I had an amazing # of tulips (for me) come back and return 2nd year - they keep coming up! I didn't plant anything new in this patch last fall.

Tracie, your gorgeous yellow with red double tulip--could it be Monsella?
You can compare yours to the photos in Plant Files under Tulipa Monsella and see what you think--http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64262/

Whatever it's name, it is certainly flamboyant and stunning.

Chris

found my first little species tulip, Little Princess. i dont know if they will all look like this or if the downpour we had affected the bloom.

tracie

these are more of the mixed doubles.

this is kinda weird. these are the group of Creme Upstars that i posted before. i dont know if this is normal for them or if the rain we had caused this.

Aggiegirl - I kinda like those Creme Upstars as you just posted.

Steve - so much for needing to pull 'em and cool 'em eh? Lookin good there!

Yes Tammy thanks! - I can now hope to grow and maintain the kind of stuff you do! I get so jealous of your climate sometimes. You're cold enough for all the cool stuff yet mild enough that you can grow a really wide range of things. I was in York a couple years ago for work and even saw some Crape Myrtles at the hotel outside and I always regarded that as a *southern* plant. You're near A-B-E, right? I was there for 7 months straight for work in the late 90's.

Wooo Hooo my tulips finally broke soil surface. Sigh and then we had a dump of snow. Just to let you know I'm living spring in your gardens. Thanks for keeping the pics coming.

Wow, Traci! Now those Cream Upstar look like magnolias!

Nice return display Steve! Is it already your 2nd spring at your current residence? Time flies!

My first tulips opened yesterday! T.humilis 'Persian Pearl' and a Kaufmaniana, Heart's Delight. Been too busy planting lily bulbs to get pics yet, but when more blooms open, will do.

they kinda do dont they? here is a pic of a new one for me, just labeled as mixed doubles. i have a bunch about to open.

tracie

Very nice tulips, aggie....the last red and white double is very interesting looking. Most of my tulips from 2007 planting are starting to fizzle but the surprise ones to come back from 2006 are just peaking :-)

Thanks Neal! Yes, second spring here, and the time does fly. Isn't this your second year as well? I was thinking you got your new place just before I did. MaZybe you were just talking about it and hadn't moved in yet but I remember you posting about it. I hear you on the lilies. How many did you say in another thread you were planting? I just received my Lily Garden order two days ago and my B&D order came just today. So, I'll be busy this weekend and tomorrow even if I get home from work early enough!!

Believe it or not, Dahlianut, we just had snow here about three weeks ago ourselves! So maybe if you have some warmer sunny days it will stimulate everything into some rapid growth.

My 2nd year tulips and 2nd year peony are all open now....I am so happy!

Those tulips in those sunrise tones look scrump, Steve! It's got me really excited to see my first "mass" of tulips I've ever planted, 50 each of Blushing Lady and Perestroyka. I'm at the end of my first year here, and getting my first bulb display! I've gone hog wild with lilies this year, I think partly because last year's spring freeze cut my lily display by over half and I was left feeling so lily deprived, LOL. In my co op enabled craze I ended up with 9 special ones from The Lily Garden, a dozen or so special ones from Faraway, 150 from Touch of Nature, and a whopping 300 from Wooden Shoe. Newfound acreage has created a fiend!

Wow Neal, have fun with all those lilies! I love to see masses of tulips, but I have opted for those which will return, species. They are not as cheap so I buy only 3 or 5 according to what is offered of each one. Well I did buy two packs of mixed pastels from the supermarket, they knocked some off for two! I put them in large tubs so I can see what they are and hopefully look after them, one is close to fully open now.

That must have been a pleasant surprise Steve, to get all those returning!

aggie, you have some lovely doubles!

The first of the species I got last year has opened, T. clusiana 'Tinka'. Their pic shows it primrose yellow and cardinal red but mine is white and raspberry, but the base shows some yellow. I like it better I think, but it doesn't look like any of them.

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

The front one has opened today, back one yesterday and it's aged deeper.

The mature one, I haven't been able to see if it has purple pollen yet, or I didn't look but it wasn't open much.

It looks more liket the straight species, I'm not complaining!

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My tulips are getting closer to blooming. Though its in the 30's most
days, it still feels like spring is really coming. I am enjoying all your
blooms while I wait..

yes- Neal was definitely in a bulb-induced daze as he was getting himself
in deep with that lily coop. Can't wait to see all those blooms Neal!

Steve - you are correct about where I am. I work in Allentown & lived there
for the first 15yrs in the area. We moved out of town when we found this
property. We actually are on a south facing ridge of a "mountain". I'm
in garden heaven here - I've got zone 7 micro climates. We can grow the
new hardier crape myrtles. But not those old fashioned southern varieties. :-)

I LOVE all forms of T.clusiana! Showy, yet with a grace lacking in so many hybrids. Now I'm enjoying their strange little leaves, I love how some of the species foliage lays flat like a starfish.

Janet, I've had good luck finding several species marked down at the end of the season. Do the vendors you use discount in late November? Brent&Becky's has a nice selection of species, so their end of season sale is practically a holiday around here. This past fall a gardening friend (who had never been a tulip fan, but now has fallen in love with the species) and I bought them by 50 to 100 per variety (at rock bottom prices!) and split the bulbs. I've never been able to plant them quite so "lavishly", so this preview in pics of whats to come has me excited! Lots more daffs to come too, we'll definitely need another thread...I wanna see em all!

Neal, most don't discount, I think they only get what they think they will sell then when they run out that's it, or they substitute. Some of them are directly selling from Holland and only get in what is ordered. J Parkers sometimes sells off daffs cheap, but I gave up on them long ago.

Miniaturebulbs isn't a big bulb company and as they specialise in the rarer ones I think they would sell out, I ordered mine as soon as they put the new catalogue up last year and this year. They have some rare tulips this year, and I'm happy with just a few, better than none! Another is about to open, I think T. ferganica as I have 3 in the ground, others I put in pots for now.

Those clausianas look like my c. Lady Jane. They are going past now, but had a beautiful run. I got them last fall on sale. They were my favorites this season. Might have to look for more this fall:-)

Does 'Lady Jane' have a colorful greggii-type leaf? I've got something along those lines by my mailbox, and now I'm not sure what I planted there, LOL.

just answered my own question by checking PF: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/80865/

nope! OK, so mine are something else... I'll go out and get a photo now that it's stopped raining...

No it has one color leaves. No cool streaks or mottling. Now you really don't know, lol! How's them kitties?

We cross posted:-) Glad you figured it out.

Hmm... well, I do remember that I really liked 'Red Riding Hood' and think I ordered a similar greggii with "love" in the name... LOL... I'll figure it out, or somebody will recognize it when I post a pic! It's really sweet.

(Them kitties are fine! I'll tell them you asked after them. :-)

tgg, if you check the pics on miniaturebulbs their Lady Jane has a dark colour at the base between the petals. Mine has yellow which can be seen on Tinka, but the rest is white. I don't see yellow on the straight clusiana either but the petal colour is like it, I wonder if they are crossing with each other. I can see the purple anthers inside.

Well, wallaby...Maybe you got a new one:-) Sure is purty, though!

That's what matters! :~)

here is the double that was only part open in the photo above.

tracie