Nut at last house we had a weasel who lived in the bank by the pond who caught a lot of young rabbits but I don't know if he got a lot of the mice. He was certainly very entertaining to watch as he used to run along the ledge of the conservatory windows and have a look in!
WW the 'single plant pots' are always great for big impact. A row along a path or edge of a patio/steps- all the same and in same pots make a great display. If you have room to do this with different plants for each season and swap them round it's really effective. I love tulips but the planting medium has to be right and pots are a great way of achieving it. I used to have a gigantic pot that I put a normal one inside and just changed the plants in that-spring bulbs the sweet peas and so on. It makes a great feature for a patio but the key is to make sure it's a big pot!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The best tulips for multiplying in the ground are the species,either single or multiflowered. There were yellow tulips in my garden when i moved in nearly fifty years ago and i still have them, some in the original place and others scatttered round the garden where they have seeded themselves. There are fields and fields of tulips(kaufmanniana) growing wild inTurkey which never get dug up and just look glorious when they flower. I have pots of all the same kind flowering now so will phtograph them for you. Tulipa turkestanica and Tulipa tarda are dwarfs that spread beautifully year after year. The ones all the same flowering now by my path are called "Stress". They have green and red striped leaves.
..oh what a lovely thread on Tulip's, this is like heaven to me...
lovely 'Stresa''s there, such a striking colour.
Excellent advice all round.. especially about the aquatic pots, I think they're marvellous for bulbs with their little drainage holes for the roots to feed through... it makes them much easier to deal with I think... unless of course you have badgers... I'm sorry to hear that Berghill...
my favourite Tulip, clusiana 'Lady Jane' is proving perennial for me. I'm growing it along a hot dry border and they're planted straight in the ground, not in pots... when they've finished I let the leaves die down, but amongst them I have Gaura 'Cherry Brandy' and they spring up when the tulips have finished... I quite like this sort of thing, it seems to work well..
The clusiana tulips are great at multiplying. I have "Cynthia" and the Bristol Botanic Garden have a great spread of them on the Mediterranean Bank. they are up the Mountain Path where they bake in the sun in the summer but mine multiply very well in the flat bed they are in albeit right in the sunniest part of the garden.
Despite the horrific thunderstoem and haistones we had in Brustol last night my "Stress" tulips are fine and my "Ancilla" which flower later are coming on. The heavy rain created a duckpond and the hailstones were bouncing out of it. i have hundreds more tulips to flower yet, just budding at the moment, as I like to have them flowering over a long period.
Marion that's the sort of weather we usually get here at this time of year-think it's heading this way tomorrow night...
I love tulips and tend to put them in pots as I'm on clay so it's easier to maintain them. As I've recently moved I'll hopefully get some organised this year for next Spring. I love the really dark ones and whites/creams. They can be so cheerful on a dull day. I had some of the little early ones a long time ago and might try some of those again.
Berg- most people have some sympathy for badgers and the current issues with TB/culls etc but, along with deer and rabbits, they don't realise how much damage they can do in our precious plots!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Nut at last house we had a weasel who lived in the bank by the pond who caught a lot of young rabbits but I don't know if he got a lot of the mice. He was certainly very entertaining to watch as he used to run along the ledge of the conservatory windows and have a look in!
WW the 'single plant pots' are always great for big impact. A row along a path or edge of a patio/steps- all the same and in same pots make a great display. If you have room to do this with different plants for each season and swap them round it's really effective. I love tulips but the planting medium has to be right and pots are a great way of achieving it. I used to have a gigantic pot that I put a normal one inside and just changed the plants in that-spring bulbs the sweet peas and so on. It makes a great feature for a patio but the key is to make sure it's a big pot!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Great idea the pots, until a badger (we think) came along, dug up the pots, emptied them out and ate all the contents.
The best tulips for multiplying in the ground are the species,either single or multiflowered. There were yellow tulips in my garden when i moved in nearly fifty years ago and i still have them, some in the original place and others scatttered round the garden where they have seeded themselves. There are fields and fields of tulips(kaufmanniana) growing wild inTurkey which never get dug up and just look glorious when they flower. I have pots of all the same kind flowering now so will phtograph them for you. Tulipa turkestanica and Tulipa tarda are dwarfs that spread beautifully year after year. The ones all the same flowering now by my path are called "Stress". They have green and red striped leaves.
..oh what a lovely thread on Tulip's, this is like heaven to me...
lovely 'Stresa''s there, such a striking colour.
Excellent advice all round.. especially about the aquatic pots, I think they're marvellous for bulbs with their little drainage holes for the roots to feed through... it makes them much easier to deal with I think... unless of course you have badgers... I'm sorry to hear that Berghill...
my favourite Tulip, clusiana 'Lady Jane' is proving perennial for me. I'm growing it along a hot dry border and they're planted straight in the ground, not in pots... when they've finished I let the leaves die down, but amongst them I have Gaura 'Cherry Brandy' and they spring up when the tulips have finished... I quite like this sort of thing, it seems to work well..
Gorgeous, HM.
I have read that tulips are not as long-lived as daffodils. Your yellow tulips seem to disprove this.
I really should plant some more, maybe I'll turf some out of their pots when they've done their stuff this year and liberate them into the garden.
The clusiana tulips are great at multiplying. I have "Cynthia" and the Bristol Botanic Garden have a great spread of them on the Mediterranean Bank. they are up the Mountain Path where they bake in the sun in the summer but mine multiply very well in the flat bed they are in albeit right in the sunniest part of the garden.
We all love daffs for their early showiness...but there's something very special about Tulips.
Despite the horrific thunderstoem and haistones we had in Brustol last night my "Stress" tulips are fine and my "Ancilla" which flower later are coming on. The heavy rain created a duckpond and the hailstones were bouncing out of it. i have hundreds more tulips to flower yet, just budding at the moment, as I like to have them flowering over a long period.
Marion that's the sort of weather we usually get here at this time of year-think it's heading this way tomorrow night...
I love tulips and tend to put them in pots as I'm on clay so it's easier to maintain them. As I've recently moved I'll hopefully get some organised this year for next Spring. I love the really dark ones and whites/creams. They can be so cheerful on a dull day. I had some of the little early ones a long time ago and might try some of those again.
Berg- most people have some sympathy for badgers and the current issues with TB/culls etc but, along with deer and rabbits, they don't realise how much damage they can do in our precious plots!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...