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Ugliest Tulip?

BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
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Just a bit of fun to see if anyone else has grown less than enchanting tulips?

I wonder if this one is called 'Bok Choi on-a-stick' ?!:

Unlike the classically pretty ones, it seems to be reliable and comes back every year..
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It has a certain subtle charm ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I think its mother was frightened by an iris.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Mine are a bit messy! Are they crossed with a peony😀

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I have a couple like that, Lyn. They look like oversized ranunculus.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The ugliest plant I ever had was a day-glow, bile green dinner plate dahlia.  I hated everything about it. So did the slugs. They never touched it. :s
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I remember years ago when Monty was new to GW and presenting from Berryfields and he tried to get the nation to grow Spring Green tulips to compare flowering dates and performance and I had to wonder why anyone would want a green tulip.  The whole point of a tulip is surely glorious, life affirming spring colour, even the subtler paler shades, but not green and not frilly and not deformed looking petals.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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  • fatplantsfatplants Posts: 2
    I think that tulip is beautiful, @BobTheGardener.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    edited August 2018
    I grew Belle Epoque, in shades of cream, which looked beautiful in the photos, but in my garden, perhaps with less sun, it just looked grubby!
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    My mum (82) doesn't half fancy Mick Jagger (75). I don't see it myself but her reasoning is that anything that ugly has to be beautiful. 
    I like that @BobTheGardener, but if you'd said "Do you like my tulip?" I'd probably have replied "Eh? Tulip???"
    As a flower, it is truly stunning, as a tulip...maybe not so much.  :)
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Buttercupdays said:
    I grew Belle Epoque, in shades of cream, which looked beautiful in the photos, but in my garden, perhaps with less sun, it just looked grubby!
    yeah, I tried that one too. I'd say the colour was 'Corset pink'. Think I'll go for something a bit brighter this year, clearly 'subtle' and 'stylish' ain't for me
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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