A clump of tulip bakeri "Lilac Wonder" was one of the first things I planted here, over 30 years ago. We've had a few hard winters in that time, but they come back every year, and have spread quite a lot. I'd call that truly perennial.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I haven't seen the programme yet, but I planted a few (5 maybe? Certainly no more than 10) Tulipa 'Apeldoorn' about 6 years ago and more come up every year. I do nothing whatsoever for them.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Sarah Raven offers a Super Perennial Tulip Collection which she has trialled and found to be reliable for over 10 years. There's also an Ultra Perennial Tulip Collection.
I have found that the orange "Ballerina" reappears each year - it's also scented.
I'm wondering what other fields make of 'expert TV programmes'. The community singing world is generally pretty critical of Gareth Malone's choir programmes. This forum enjoys taking a hatchet to GW. Watching Repair Shop, for example, I wonder if there are galleries of craft artisans howling at their screens, condeming the restoration techniques. I can imagine it.
There is always a vociferous minority who think they can do better … however few of them seem to live up to their claims … present company excepted of course 😉
It’s a bit like the know-all types who look at a work of art and say ‘my two year old could do better than that’. They don’t understand what they see.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am not sure I agree @Fire. Yes there are vociferous critics of GW on here, but at least as many who enjoy it and learn a bit too. I am more concerned about the increasing number of people who seem to think we do not need experts in science and medicine and probably a whole lot more areas.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
"Watching Repair Shop, for example, I wonder if there are
galleries of craft artisans howling at their screens, condeming the
restoration techniques. I can imagine it. "
I wasn't really being pointy. I genuinely wonder. Not knowing anything at all about painting restoration, for example, I have no way of assessing Repair Shop techniques of old oil paintings. As these types of programmes are very much about making "good TV" rather than hyper-accuracy maybe they all suffer from glossing.... Should we take them as genuine 'learning programmes' (on antique leather repair, planting a birch, close harmony practice, making a souffle, building a toilet...) or take it all with a bag of salt? A lot of people (like me) watch them to learn stuff.
@punkdoc a woman interviewed on TV recently, about Covid, said, "I have a right to believe what I want." She wasn't concerned about the TRUTH of what she believed and saw it as a matter of personal freedom. Amazing - and frightening.
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I have found that the orange "Ballerina" reappears each year - it's also scented.
As I say, I would be interested to find out what she meant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am more concerned about the increasing number of people who seem to think we do not need experts in science and medicine and probably a whole lot more areas.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
And yet if she found that schools were knowingly choosing to teach lies and balderdash to her children she’d probably sue.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.