We can grow many things here but tulips can not be generally numbered among them. Yesterday you can imagine my surprise when I saw Tulip 'Lilac Wonder' smiling at me! I got it 8 years ago and it bloomed for me only the the spring after I got it. I kept it alive a those years but no blooms appeared until now. The winters are not cold enough. But this year, there it was, with a label that was almost unreadable. To those of you across the country (US) the bloom would be nothing to get excited about. But, for me in southern California, it was a notable success. Is this tulip a form of T. bakeri, as I see on the Internet, or is it a hybrid? Andrew San Diego