Tulips are measured in circumference or Size I or ll Here a list from the commercial botanical ones with there colour , size and hight Roland acuminata, scarlet and yellow I 30-40 altaica, lemon-yellow 6/+cm 10-20 armena, crimson red I 10-20 armena ssp. armena, yellow form, yellow I 10-20 aucheriana hort., (syn. T. humilis ‘Aucheriana’) bakeri 'Lilac Wonder', roseine purple, inside mauve 6/7cm 10-20 batalinii, pale lemon-yellow I 10-20 batalinii 'Apricot Jewel', orange-red, inside golden-yellow I 10-20 batalinii 'Bright Gem', sulphur yellow, flushed orange 6/+cm 10-20 batalinii 'Bronze Charm', yellow, bronze feathered 6/+cm 10-20 batalinii 'Red Gem', vermilion with pink glow, inside scarlet 6/+cm 10-20 batalinii 'Salmon Jewel', salmon-orange I 10-20 batalinii 'Yellow Jewel', yellow, tinged rose 6/+cm 10-20 biflora, white with yellow eye 5/+cm 10-20 biflora maxima, white with yellow edge 6/+cm 10-20 bifloriformis, creamy-white I 10-20 clusiana, true species, white with carmine red, base violet I 20-30 clusiana 'Cynthia', spinel red, edged chartreuse green 6/+cm 20-30 clusiana 'Lady Jane'®, white with red 6/+cm 20-30 clusiana 'Peppermintstick'®, inside white, outside red clusiana 'Sheila', apricot with red flame 5/+cm 20-30 clusiana var. stellata I 20-30 Miscellaneous continued size Height cm. clusiana 'Tinka'®, primrose yellow with red 6/+cm 20-30 clusiana 'Tubergen's Gem', rhodonite red 6/+cm 20-30 clusiana var. chrysantha, deep yellow, yellow edge 5/6cm 20-30 clusiana var. cashmeriana, white to pale pink, red band I 20-30 dasystemon, bright yellow 5/+cm 10-20 didieri, red I 20-30 dubia Tschimgam, a variable species but usually orangy with dubia x greigii Beldersai, soft yellow with red on outer petals I 20-30 eichleri, scarlet-red, black base with yellow margin I 20-30 eichleri 'Excelsa', scarlet red 9/10cm 30-40 ferganica, bright yellow 8/+cm 30-40 grengiolensis, pale yellow with red margin I 30-50 hageri, dull red, inside tinged with green 5/+cm 10-20 hageri 'Splendens', copery-bronze with scarlet glow 6/+cm 10-20 heweri, golden yellow with red flush I 10-20 'Honky Tonk', yellow 6/+cm 10-20 hoogiana, bright scarlet, black base with yellow margin I 40-50 humilis (syn. T. pulchella var. humilis), violet pink, base yellow 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'China Coral', purple 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'Eastern Star', magenta rose, bronze flames 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'Helena', purple 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'Lilliput', shining cardinal-red 6/+cm 5-10 humilis ‘Magenta Queen’, lilac-purple, green flame I 10-15 humilis 'Odalisque', spiraea-red, inner tepals purple 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'Persian Pearl', greenish magenta-rose 6/+cm 10-15 humilis 'Pink Charm', pink 6/+cm 10-15 humilis var. pulchella 'Albocaerulea Oculata', (syn. T. violacea humilis var. pulchella 'Albocaerulea Oculata'-Pink Form, humilis 'Rosea', light violet with yellow centre 6/+cm 10-15 humilis var. 'Tête-à-Tête', dark purple-red I 10-15 humilis 'Violacea Black Base', (syn. T. violacea ‘Black Centre’), humilis 'Violacea Yellow Base', doge purple 5/+cm 10-15 iliensis, lemon-yellow I 15-25 ingens, bright scarlet-vermilion I 40-50 kolpakowskiana, yellow, streaked with red 6/+cm 15-25 kurdica, orange-red 6/+cm 10-20 'Latvian Gold', red, edged yellow I 30-40 linifolia, signal-red, inside scarlet 4/5cm 10-15 'Little Beauty', tyrian purple with moorish blue 6/+cm 10-15 'Little Princess', blood-red and spanish orange 6/+cm 10-20 'Little Star', white, yellow centre. Outside flamed green and red 7/8cm 5-10 marjolletii, pale creamy-white, edged cerise 7/8cm 20-40 mauritiana 'Cindy', primrose-yellow, flamed lemon-yellow I 40-50 maximowiczii, signal red, large black base 4/5cm 10-15 mixture of species and miscellaneous, mixture 5/+cm 10-40 montana 'Yellow Form', yellow with black base I 10-15 montana var. chrysantha, yellow I 10-15 neustruevae, deep yellow with greenish brown bands 5/+cm 15-30 orphanidea, bronze-orange I 15-30 orphanidea 'Flava', pale yellow, tinged orange and green 6/+cm 15-30 polychroma, white with violet, base yellow 6/+cm 10-20 praestans, brick-red 10/+cm 30-40 praestans 'Bloemenlust', signal-red, flamed capsicum red 10/+cm 10-20 praestans 'Fusilier', orange-scarlet 11/12cm 20-30 praestans 'Moondance', orange-red with yellow 10/+cm 15-25 praestans 'Red Sun', red 10/+cm 15-25 praestans 'Shogun', yellow-orange with orange-red 10/+cm 10-20 praestans 'Unicum', capsium red, light yellow base, praestans 'Van Tubergen’s Variety', orange-scarlet 9/10cm 25-35 praestans 'Yari', tomato red 10/+cm 30-40 praestans 'Zwanenburg Variety', vermilion 9/10cm 25-35 'Red Hunter'® , tomato red. Ht. 15 cm 6/+cm 10-20 sarracenica, blood red I 10-20 saxatilis, rosy-lilac with yellow base 6/+cm 15-25 schrenkii, scarlet with orange margin 8/+cm 10-15 sogdiana, white, yellow base I 10-20 sprengeri, red with hint of gold I 30-50 stapfii, scarlet with black yellow margin blotch I 20-30 sylvestris, yellow 6/+cm 20-30 sylvestris ssp. australis, deep yellow, tinged with hint of red I 20-30 'Taco'®, clusiana type, red with yellow edge. Inside yellow 6/+cm 15-25 tarda, white with yellow base, outside brownish-purple 7/8cm 5-10 tschimganica, yellow I 15-25 tubergeniana 'Keukenhof', scarlet with yellow centre 11/12cm 40-50 turkestanica, white and greyish-violet, base orange-yellow 7/8cm 15-20 urumiensis, golden-yellow with bronze tinge 7/+cm 5-10 vvedenskyi, scarlet to orange 11/12cm 20-30 vvedenskyi 'Girlfriend', yellow with red blush I 25-30 vvedenskyi 'Tangerine Beauty', fire-red, lemon blotches 11/12cm 15-20 whittallii, mid orange, tinged greenish-bronze 6/+cm 20-30 wilsoniana, deep blood red 6/+cm 10-20 2012/7/19 Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com>: > 1 cm bulbs of clusiana could flower. -2cm would be a big bulb. > Most tulips do not seem to persist in acid soils, I have seen T saxatilis > (bakeri), T sylvestris and T sprengeri do well in dry, acid gardens > Peter (UK) > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Ina <klazina@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > >> Mine are 1cm.... 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