Dear all, we had quite turbulent weather today, starting with a cold morning with clear blue sky and several heavy rains with snow and hail. Day after tomorrow, we expect +20 °C, end of next week, nights below 0 again. April weather. Still, I had a short stroll through the garden when the sun came out, and spring is almost here. Several years after planting, Anemone nemorosa has finally begun to feel at home below our hedge and will flower in a day or two - I'll have to visit the large populations in the forests soon, it's my favorite time of the year in our forests -, the second wave of daffodils were simply glowing in the sun, and all pots are looking just fine and get going. Any bet, there will be the first lily beetle somewhere on my plants on monday. Tulip buds are emerging, from pots as well as from the ground, and I was wondering: Does anybody know whether there have been breeding efforts with T. sylvestris? I saw and smelled it some year ago in a museum garden, and went to order some as soon as possible, but I am pretty sure the plants there looked slightly different from what I got, a little more reddish and a with slightly more slender and elegant buds. It might be ssp. australis, but as I never saw the subspecies for sale, this would be odd. Maybe I just remember them even more beautiful as they actually are ... Now, the museum has been closed since almost a year due to COVIV, so I can't go and have a look, or even ask for a bulb. As I am very fond of flowers with pleasant smells, I am looking for other scented species tulips and tulip varieties. I am curious - what are your favorite scented tulips? Nils _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>