search: Tulipa turkistanica
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: search: Tulipa turkistanica
- From: m* l*
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:10:24
Tulipa turkistanica is readily available from a number of suppliers here in
the U.S.,but if importing plants is anything nearly as complicated and
expensive in your country as it has become here in the states, you would be
well advised to find a supplier closer to home.
The only one I know of for certain is at
http://www/bulbargence.com/
and in fact the owner belongs to and sometimes posts on this list.
I am curious as to why you would limit yourself to T. turkestanica?
It has been my impression, although my information is limited to
that available in English, that the Ottoman gardens of the place and period
you describe had access to any number of tulip species, as well
as narcissus and hyacinth. I ask only because T. turkestanica has a
reputation of being of somewhat objectionable scent, and scent seems
an important element of your plan. Certainly the extent of the empire
at the end of the 15th century under Suleyman would have made available
then almost any of today's commonly available species tulips.
Tulipa biflora is credited with a pleasant scent and is, I believe,
native to Turkey. I have experimented in the last couple of years
with a couple of the species tulips here in California at mid level
elevations where there is a little more in the way of cold weather.
It is still a little early on in my own garden to say which of them
will persist, but they are really wonderful little bulbs so far.
Yours most respectfully,
Michael Larmer
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