Re: tulips

ECPep@aol.com wrote:
This is an often asked question in the US as all of us have had dreams of drifts of returning spring color from tulips. The breakdown of the bulb and the appearance of the single leaf or an occasional small flower happens everywhere making the tulip an annual for US gardeners (apart from species bulbs).
Is there a way to tell a species bulb before it's planted? These are those pointed petal type (sorry - I'm not up on my tulip jargon) in a deep burgundy (not red) - rather than the softer, cup-shaped tulips.

I'm in Zone 5 - SE Wisconsin, in heavy Great Lakes Clay. Do I have an anamoly?

No, Pat, you have tulips (sorry, couldn't resist that one)!

Seriously, are they rather low growing (up to 5 inches) or taller, say 10-12 inches? If they are the latter, you probably what are generally called lily-flowering tulips and while I think they last longer than some of the fancy hybrids, I've never had them multiply for me.

Here is a link to a page with many of the species tulips listed. Do your tulips resemble any of them?

http://vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Product&_category=Tulips:Species

In any case, if you ever get too many of your prolific burgundy tulips, I'd be happy to take some of your hands!

--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS

Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index