On 15 Apr 2009, at 10:51, Linda Kumin wrote: > [Has] anyone out there has found any types or cultivars of tulips that are > resistant to "tulip fire" - botrytis tulipa [?] If you have tulip fire, the first thing to suspect is cultural conditions. Tulips demand full sun, good ventilation, and, please, no top dressing with organic material! Even a mulch of leaves can cause trouble. Good hygiene is important too: careful removal of faded and diseased flowers and foliage. Don't compost it! Put it in the household garbage or burn it. At a guess, the bed your tulips are in may be so contaminated with spores of B. tulipae now that the best bet would be to move them to a clean, uncontaminated location. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…