Bay area Tulipa
Maxwithers (Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:03:14 PDT)
Paul, I lost T. linifolia (from UCBG!) after I think two years in the ground in Oakland. I did not give it any special care. Clusiana was reliable in the same spot. There is a beautiful red form of T. bakeri (also known as T. hageri I think?) from Crete that Nick Turland managed to grow in Missouri, but I never found a commercial source in the U.S. You should try to get some from MOBOT! That would be a valuable contribution to Bay Area gardens.
If you search Tulipa on Nick's Flickr stream, you should find it, along with the correct name, sorry I don't have time to track it down now.
Best,
Max Withers
Austin
On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Paul Licht <plicht@calmail.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Many tulips will bloom over several years in my Berkeley
area garden but are unreliable because of our lack of
winter. In the Botanical Garden, T. clusiana (maybe not all
cultivars) has been long lived and this is a well known
species for zone 9. I'd like to hear of other species that
have done well for Bay area gardeners. Likely candidates are
T. bakeri, saxatilis, batalini, and linifolia.
Paul
Paul Licht, Director
University of California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/
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