Every spring I go through my ridiculously large collection of potted plants and place them back into the landscaping according to their need for sun, shade, wind protection, etc. There are always a number of marginals that didn't make it, and these are set in a dappled area out back to wait for them to try to come back from the roots.
In one of these large pots with the woody bones of a deceased shrubbery, a bulb came up. After a couple weeks it appeared to be a tulip, though with unusually long, thin leaves. I moved it back out to the sun with some curiosity. There are a number of yellow and red tulips which have naturalized around my property and tend to get scooped up on accident when I dig things up, and these I usually reclaim when they reappear, adding them back to the landscape or sprinkling them around potted perennial arrangements.
This, however, is something that has never bloomed in my yard before. It has a certain elegant beauty that very much appeals to me. It may have come in on one of my coop splurges, or been accidentally passed to me from another kind gardener, but I have no idea what it is. I am, of course, speaking of the viridiflora tulip in the picture and not the rhododendron in the background. ^_^
Tulip identification is not really a strong point of mine. Has anyone seen this variety before? I'd very much like to have an identification for it to match against my records and properly label it.
Thank you.
