--- Boyce Tankersley <btankers@chicagobotanic.org> wrote: > Hi Shawn: > > Tulipa 'Kingsblood' flowered better for me than any > other cultivar when I was in Galveston. Bright red, > it seemed in less need of in-ground cooling to > flower on decent length stems. > > At my parents place in Las Cruces, NM, (zone 7), > Tulipa chrysantha has come back for over 10 years. > The larger hybrids have not been as successful. The > soils are heavy adobe clay and infested with a > pathogen called pink root from the days when onions > were commercially grown on that location. Boyce, Thanks for the info! Tulipa chrysantha grew well for me in Alpine, TX in clay loams. Shawn Pollard