Van Engelen Bulb Co-op

There are Tulips, Narcissus, Allium, Iris, Fritillaria, and some other stuff!! Come take a look!!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/851557/

Has everyone ordered their tulips from the Van Engelen co-op?

I know we have a couple days left to order and there are some nice ones left--Tulip 'Amazone' and Tulip 'Salmon Pearl' for example and I believe they need someone to add a few bulbs to fill out the minimum quantities on a couple of the others...

-- and wondered what everyone is getting?

I ordered 50 Orange Princess Tulips and a bunch of Tahiti Daffs.

What aren't I getting is the question! LOL

I'm probably going to add a few things to help counts in a bit but so far:

10 Tulip Tangerine Beauty
10 T. Analita--ya'll have to go look at this one! It is gorgeous and your neighbor won't get this at Home Depot or WalMart!
10 Amazone--the blend on this one is so great--really a terra cotta pink thing.
10 Synaeda Armour--beautiful
5 Orange Princess- related to Princess Irene--I'm going to get 10 more
5 Tulip Green Wave--why wouldn't you want a green tulip
5 Tulip Green Pimpernel--a green and deep rose color
10 Tulip Golden Artist--sold out
5 Narc. White Medal-pure white double
10 Narc. Saguitta-sold out
10 Narc Sorbet-beautiful white split cup--center is yellow/oj
5 Tulip Elegant Lady--a cream and rose lily type
20 Ipheon Wisley Blue--sold out very quickly

I'm going big on the tulips even though I've never had one good spring with them. I can do no wrong with daffodils but my tulips just don't perform that well. Are there amendments that tulips will respond to?

LOL yes, you are putting together quite a sample palette of Tulips for next spring!

My tulips are usually a bust, too. They succumb to the moles, voles, rot, deer, you name it, in our garden, but I'm going to try to pot them and put them in the extra fridge for several weeks, or pot and sink into the compost pile (with wire protection from the varmints), and bring them out in springtime to grow and bloom in natural sun light. Don't know if that will work, but I couldn't resist the co-op.

I did have good luck with Darwin Hybrid tulips (Impression Series) at my daughter's house, and would have ordered more, but they weren't offered in the co-op. They seemed to be able to stand up to the spring rain/wind/hot sun better than some of the more delicate cultivars...I plan to order the Impression Tulip Collection from Van Engelen later this season....

But I do love the 'Artistic' tulips like 'Analita', 'Golden Artist', 'Green Wave' and 'Amazone'...! You will have a gorgeous garden next May!

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I may take your advice on refrigerating them for awhile and do containers. We really didn't have much of a winter last year--really for the past couple of years. Last year we had a full week of temps around 80 in mid December (that's when I finally planted my TB iris :lol:)

I wonder if that is causing the problem with the tulips. I hate having to replant each year too. I guess most tulips tend to practically be annuals so if you want em you've got to replant most years. I always get the Triumph and Darwin traits mixed up--the Darwin are more likely to perennialize right?

dmac, Scheepers says about Darwins: "may return for subsequent years when planted in a nice sunny spot with good drainage and regular fertilizer feedings." I've never planted them. I usually get Triumphs but plant them anew every year. Tobasco, I'd love to try the Impressions, I just don't have enough pots that I can devote to tulips! My bad luck is with daffs. For some reason they always rot on me.

Thanks, revclaus:) I did have 1 type of tulip bloom this season (I planted 3). It was called Gavota--the photo is below. Don't know what happened to the others (Paul Scherer and Arabian Mystery).

I'll be looking into some Darwins--just a couple to try.

dmac, I'm thrilled to see your Gavota! I had a few come up in a mix I bought, and I loved them!

I love your photo!
They were really cool looking tulips--I happened to plant them in front of the Sara Bernhardt peony and the peony shoot were reddish and sort of echoed the colors in the Gavota. Just got lucky with that one:lol:

I have the gavota too and LOVE it...I have kinda the same problem with glads-love them and have to pull them up every year-so I have a plan now-I pull them after they flower w/ the green still on-I grap it-stick a shovel about 6" away to loosen and voila-they pop out:) The other thing I might try is I have seen these tray things that you stick in the ground, so I would use chicken wire to create a little tray, attach a rope that will stick out of the ground slightly-that way if I had them in a group, I wait for them do be done floweing and start to die back, then stick a shovel in where the rope is to loosen, grrab the rope and as long as I stuck a shovel in the ground all the way around, it should come out, then cut back foliage, rinse off tray and pop em in the fridge for 4 mos...The containers are a wonderful idea if you have a 2nd fridge too:)

My glads overwinter and then make babies and are running rampant in the TB iris bed. I thought I gave most of them away--the cormlets looked the size of 4 o'clock seeds. I have a bunch of "blades of grass" seedlings scattered everywhere. I think I had planted a mixed bag about 10 yrs ago and now only the 4 ft tall white one survived. Guess they're happy where they are. I have some from last years 4paws glad co-op in containers in the back and they are doing OK too.