The bottom of a Queen Of The Night Tulip.I love the Kalaeidoscope effect of the inner cup.The petals are almost translucent at the base of the flower to let some light in that makes it look like a church window.
The colours are very strong with burgundy, crimson, purple, blue, white, and yellow!
The pollen stains the inner flower petals around the stamen and stigmata.
An insects eyes view of the target for pollination.These lovely Tulips have almost done flowering now.
The heavy rain has bashed the last flowers that were still standing.The summer flowers are coming slowly to take over the garden colour.

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"NOT ONE OF FLORA'S BRILLIANT RACE

A FORM MORE PERFECT CAN DISPLAY;

ART COULD NOT FEIGN MORE SIMPLE GRACE

NOR NATURE TAKE A LINE AWAY."

~ From "On Planting a Tulip~Root"

James Montgomery 1771~1854

~ Angelique

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2008-05-17, 05:35:59

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"To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt fully to understand."

~ Henry Theordore Tuckerman

~ 'Spring green' tulip

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, tulips on 2008-05-14, 06:12:58

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Okay, well, the mania is mine. I love tulips and I've been planting them for a few years in my garden. Mostly the front yard, but I have a few out back, too.

In keeping with the purpose of this blog, being my garden journal, I am going to use this post to document the many varieties of tulip that bloom (or still bloom) in my garden. I plant new varieties every year, but they don't all return. So this is a record of what's blooming in Spring 2008. . . .

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Do you remember that I did some late planting of bulbs in November last year?

Here are the result, tulips in the gravel! I just love botanical tulips and my deers doesn't likes then, perfect. I think I like them so much because they are 'in floribus' early and they are so small, pretty and really genuine looking. When it's cold they close up and says -"We are freezing where is the sun" and when the sun comes and warm the tulips they opens up and says in a tulip choir - "Look at me, look how beautiful I am!" Some of the them are extremely early and they had already bloomed over when I took this photo below. . . .

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Do you remember that I did some late planting of bulbs in November last year?

Here are the result, tulips in the gravel! I just love botanical tulips and my deers doesn't likes then, perfect. I think I like them so much because they are 'in floribus' early and they are so small, pretty and really genuine looking. When it's cold they close up and says -"We are freezing where is the sun" and when the sun comes and warm the tulips they opens up and says in a tulip choir - "Look at me, look how beautiful I am!" Some of the them are extremely early and they had already bloomed over when I took this photo below. . . .

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"First flowers on the table; then food."

~ Danish saying

~ Rembrandt tulip

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Garden's Note : These modern day tulips, named after the famous Dutch painter, are reminiscent of the flamed-shaped streaked 'broken' color color tulips selling for astronomical sums when Rembrandt was a young man during the tulip mania craze that gripped 17th century Holland.

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, tulips on 2008-05-06, 06:38:25

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"First flowers on the table; then food."

~ Danish saying

~ Rembrandt tulip

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Garden's Note : These modern day tulips, named after the famous Dutch painter, are reminiscent of the flamed-shaped streaked 'broken' color color tulips selling for astronomical sums when Rembrandt was a young man during the tulip mania craze that gripped 17th century Holland.

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, tulips on 2008-05-06, 06:38:25

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ABC Wednesday
Cape Tulip
Moraea ochroleuca
(mor-ah-EE-uh) (ock-roh-LEW-kuh)

If you are here for Wordless Wednesday skip down to the next post. Thanks for visiting.

Last week I was in no shape to post for ABC Wednesday. It snapped a streak of posts that started with the first ‘A’. I am participating again today with some ‘O’range pictures. . ..

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The first tulips started blooming today. The ones that were not devored by rabbits and deer. The leaves on the trees are getting ready to pop out as well. I would say spring is definately here, but then again I did here a rumor of snow showers next week. I really hope that isn't true.

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Posted by Lisa Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2008-04-24, 06:25:26

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These are the purple tulips I planted in the fall, at least they were supposed to be purple. I know I'm not the only one this happened to, Sherry, from Sherry's Zoo and Gardens had red tulips instead of pink coming up in her garden. At least these are in the backyard garden and it really doesn't matter there. . . .

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Posted by Robin's Nesting Place Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2008-04-23, 06:44:04

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Gardeners are advised to treat tulips as annuals. Despite their association with the soggy Netherlands, tulips are native to the dry, mountainous regions of central Asia. They need cold winters, wet springs, and dry summers to perform well year after year. Most gardeners can’t (or won’t) provide these conditions, so the plants decline after a year or so. Tulip breeders offer varieties they claim are perennial, but are they really? (And, wouldn’t it be counter to the tulip breeder’s interests to produce a tulip that perennializes in the garden setting?)

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Posted by Kasmira Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2008-04-17, 06:21:45

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Okay, I can handle the 50s. Granted, I'm not pleased about frost warnings for tonight. Thank goodness everything outside is hearty. And that I did not give into my impulses to plant seeds last week.

But, I have tulips! The one under the hydrangea appears to be yellow. Hopefully, it will survive to open, so I can get a good picture.

The peony-type tulips are starting to bloom. The variety is 'Miranda'. Very lovely red. Although, a squirrel chewed off one bud. I have that sitting in a glass of water at the moment. I wish the squirrels would leave a little more stem if they're going to poach. Anyway, picture!

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Tissue paper, crumpled newsprint, a spray bottle and tulips. As you can see above, I’ve been experimenting a bit, playing with these simplest of elements, exploring the notion of patina and how to achieve a sense of it. Sometimes an idea hits and just won’t leave me alone until I’ve worked it out a bit. Hope you don’t mind wandering along on such adventures. Doubtless, tomorrow it will be something entirely different, which is a big part of why I continue to allow time for such play. One never really has a clue where such permission will lead next. Something rather delicious about that!

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Red and White Tulip Buds

I have a busy day planned so here is another archive shot of some red and white Tulips. I am not sure where or when I shot this. Tulips are always a special flower to me. You really can’t plant them here in Connecticut unless you have a fenced in area because of the deer. They seem to really relish the foliage and buds.

Thanks to all the people that have been visiting lately. I hope to go to the Orchid Show at the NYBG on Sunday so starting next week there should be some fresh flower shots here. It gets to be a little tough this time of year to keep with the general idea of this blog, which was to be posting pictures I shot with in a week of two of the post. I can’t wait to get back to doing that.

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Yesterday when I wrote:
“I have a vase of tulips on my dining room table that has reached that ‘falling-apart’ stage. Petals have begun to drop. Colors have begun to fade. Leaf edges have browned and begun to curl. Stems have grown so much longer since being arranged that several now arch gracefully down, drooping completely to the table.”. . .

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When flowers bloom bright . . .

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~ Elegant tulip

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, tulips on 2008-02-13, 07:23:18

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This very mature tulip has certainly seen it's best day's. Sometimes I like dead flowers especially tulips they really ages gracefully. This morning I took a picture of this very, very old dead flower (I think it's from last year) :-) Recycled tulip - I added some light, color and ops.... Revived!

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Posted by Tyra in Vaxholm Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2008-01-21, 18:12:34

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Tulips start popping up in stores before they get a chance in the garden, so even if the critters or the weather won't let you have tulips in your garden,...

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It all seems so obvious now, that planting tulip bulbs in groups is waaay easier than one at a time.  Well, that much I would have guessed but for some reason I thought we're not supposed to do it that way.  So my 50 tulips in front of a sunny border have always sprung from 50 separate holes.  But having learned that Elizabeth sticks 50 of them in ONE HOLE and GETS AWAY WITH IT, well damn, I can bunch 'em up a bit, right?. . .

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Ellen Willmott was a British artist and gardener who had several plants named after her, including a white, double-flowering lilac and a pale, pink-edged rose. The best known plant that bears her name, however, is a biennial sea holly, eryngium gigantium, known as 'Miss Willmott's Ghost.' Apparently Miss Willmott enjoyed sprinkling the seeds of this particular plant about--in effect, leaving her "ghosts" to appear in the gardens of her friends and acquaintences long after she had departed those places.

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Wordless Wednesday

I didn’t buy any new tulip bulbs to plant in the garden this year. Most of the tulips that I’ve planted in previous years have continued to come up again and again each spring but I think some of the tulips might be dying out or perhaps the squirrels have got to them and transplanted them elsewhere.

I must remember to buy more next year!

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I have managed to do some last minute planting today, last but not least important were the botanical tulips. They have a given place in Tyra's Garden. This year I had to move my existing tulips because I needed the space for another project. I dug them up and left them on the ground for a few days. Big mistake someone, probably a rabbit had a feast, a giant bulb party! So...I had to buy some new one's. The botanical tulips are so delicate, small and sweet, and a big plus are that they are early. I think because they are early in bloom is why I find them simply irresistible.

Botanical tulips, Tyra's Garden

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Most tulips are show-stoppers the first year, and then dwindle quickly until nothing comes up except some foliage. You might wonder what went wrong with them. The truth is -- nothing.

In our climate, tulips aren't reliable returnees to the garden. In fact, botanical gardens and commercial properties typically plant thousands -- sometimes hundreds of thousands -- of tulips each fall and then yank them out when their blooms have faded. . . .

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Posted by Jessica Damiano Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2007-10-11, 18:10:14

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Acuminata, tarda, and turkistanica, 2006 photos

When I first considered tulips, I didn’t want to think about anything other than the large hybrids. My knowledgeable friend told me that the species tulips would perennialize better; I’m not even sure I knew what that meant. But then I watched the hybrids decline, and always hated their too-prominent foliage. Lilies became more rewarding; the stalks declined at the end of the summer rather than the beginning. . . .

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..... that's right - to Floriade

This year's theme was Australian Icons, Myths and Legends. However, it's very difficult to determine what is what from ground level, so I didn't even try and just took photos instead.

(Click on photo for larger view.)

Enough tulips to make a Dutch family homesick.

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Posted by Alice Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2007-09-28, 06:39:47

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Conscientious gardeners no doubt already have their daffodils in the ground, or at least already purchased, right?  But not me.  I JUST remembered it's almost time to choose and plant my tulip display for the next year, so I hastened to consult this selection at my usual source, John Scheepers:  Single late tulips. . . .

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Posted by Susan Reblogged by Old Roses to tulips on 2007-09-25, 18:43:58

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May 27, 2007! Another one of our pretty tulips that my mom has been growing for years. You can even notice the raindrops that have yet to. . .

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Friday many of you saw the release of what has been dubbed the Texas Tulip (Tulipa praecox). We are almost sold out, and for all of the blog readers, I want to make sure that you know about it and have the opportunity to purchase some. If you would like to read the Dallas Morning News piece by Mariana Greene released this weekend, please click here. Also, feel free to browse http://www.texastulip.com/ to find out more information. . . .

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Want to see my first video? Here's a show of the different kinds of tulip flowers you can consider planting this fall. . . .

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The tulips are almost over with only one late variety hanging on and looking good. These violet-red tulips were stunning for the last month but I’m saying goodbye to them now.

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