Tulips from the Tien Shan
Antennaria@aol.com (Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:40:35 PDT)

Thanks Victor for sharing with PBS members the many photos of Tulipa species
from the Tien Shan. Seeing photos of plants in habitat is such a treat, and
your bounty of great Tulipa pix certainly enriches the PBS wiki photo resource.
I'm particularly taken with Tulipa heterophylla. Is this species in
cultivation or available from any bulb merchants that you know of?

It's also great to see the wild forms of kaufmanniana and greigii... so
distinct and different from the hybrids that have emerged from their involvement in
hybridization over many decades. Once again I'm impressed just how wonderful
and relatively unexplored the genus Tulipa is for providing rock gardens with
small, eminently garden worthy plants.

Mark McDonough, a tulipa admirer,

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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