In the continuing effort to catalog the known plants growing in the Fairegarden, may we offer the tulips for your consideration. These photos will join the posting of Daffodils-2010 on the permanent page found on the sidebar titled Plants We Grow-Spring Bulbs. The only way to accomplish this project is to keep current with the blooming and label the photos as they are taken. There may will be mistakes made. Like the one just made, underlining instead of crossing out. So without further ado:
Tulipa ‘Silverstream’
T. ‘Big Smile’
orange from Walmart
T. vvedenskyi ‘Tangerine Beauty’
T. ‘Little Beauty’
T. ‘Little Beauty and T. ‘Little Princess’
T. tarda
T. viridflora ‘Spring Green’
T. ‘Purissima’ (White Emperor)
pastel mix from Walmart
T. clusiana ‘Lady Jane’
T. ‘Queen Of The Night’
T. batalinii ‘Apricot Jewel’
If, or perhaps when more types of tulips are planted here, they will be added to this post and the page. We hope.
Frances
Fairegarden 
Frances,
Your tulips are just beautiful. For a long time I never really cared for tulips, but I am thankful that they have grown on me and become a spring favorite. I planted some ‘Tangerine Beauty’ last fall, in addition to a double variety of ‘Queen of the Night.’ ‘Lady Jane’ is on my wish list for this fall. I just love your blue-bronze violas.
I am curious if you had any luck getting your Penstemon ‘Chocolate Drop’ to germinate. I have not been successful. One resource I checked says they do not need a cold period prior to germination, while another says they need 2 months in the fridge. I may try again with the longer refrigeration method.
Frances, your tulips are lovely. Mine, in the garden, have flowered for the third year. So I am very happy, especially as I lost all the new ones I planted in pots to mice. In my garden planting the bulbs really deep, about 1 foot seems to have worked.
Best wishes Sylvia (England)
Frances, so glad you included your WalMart tulips. Often we neglect the less expensive ones, but they can provide lots of spring beauty and don’t seem to be as fussy as some.
Love the Lady Janes and Queen of the Nights. My colors! Spring Green is very unusual, but I like them. As always your photos are wonderful!
Well, well. Tulip envy here. Wish I could grow them. I have several plants from the Dollar Store that I am very proud of. The celosia for one (seed packet) and now I have dinner plate Dahlias about a foot and a half tall (tuber) bloom or not to bloom will tell the whole story of thrifty shopping. Ah, such humble beginnings.
The colors are happy but the white with the green tulips have stolen my heart. Morning Frances. You are up with the birds.
Frances, I so love tulips, had to have them at my wedding. I tried them the first year I was at Kilbourne Grove, but the local squirrel mafia decided they didn’t fit in the hood, and took care of that problem. Now, I am waiting until I retire, and get a couple of big (enforcers) dogs!
Frances,
So brave to plant tulips! Here they almost never return. Great selection you have picked out. Looks like our rain here might be another bust…
I happen to know you have presented just a small part of your tulip riches, Frances. Have you more or less decided to add a species or two every year or was there some point where you went for a bunch of them all at once? It does seem your range of tulips is really stunning now. I was particularly taken with the Purple one and with the odd, near-silver foliage on that creamy white sucker. Gorgeous stuff, Frances. Thanks.
Beautiful stuff, Frances! Wow! I also liked the creamy edition. Love the way you get your closeups. It defines the difference between my hacking away at photography and your slicker look, lol. What the heck – it;s fun, isn’t it?
What a beautiful collection of tulips. It is good that you are trying to keep a catalog of your tulips. You will appreciate it at some point when you need to know what their names are.
Thanks for the ‘heads up’ on staking the Dahlias..had forgotten that.
Hi Frances – I’m inspired to see that such a master gardener as yourself would use Walmart plants. As I continue this garden blogging venture, I’ve been a little intimidated by the huge variety of select species. And your garden is so full of these treasures. Glad to see that someone like you, with such an extensive garden, is using what’s available everywhere to create beauty. It terrific and I love the results. Thanks
I’m given three months of bulb gardens as a holiday gift and each year I put the forced bulbs somewhere in my yard. I never know what will come back (or where I’ve put them!) so my spring is always full of surprises. A few tulips make it, but not many– too warm here.
I love the colour combinations of your Little Beauty and Little Princess! All your tulips are spectacular…I never tire of them.
Goodness, I love tulips. I especially like the ‘Little Beauty’ and ‘Little Princess’ combination.
Hello Frances,
Although I do not grow them myself, I love tulips. Yours are beautiful and I especially like the photos where you capture their centers -something that many fail to capture in their pictures.
Wow, Frances. I did a double-take when your blog opened … thought it was mine 🙂 I did a tulip post today too … aren’t they amazing … we are so blessed! I have another wave coming … so much popping in the garden, I can’t keep up!
I run out of superlatives sometimes when I see stuff growing in your garden. The tulips are no exception.
Frances, A lovely collection of tulips and what’s so excellent about tulips is that they keep hybridizing more of them! My only complaint about spring bulbs are the leaves and stems after wards~but, tulips cooperate and disappear much faster then the dafs! Btw, I wore hot pink and orange in college! I can remember the dress perfectly;-) but easily forget to pick up cream for the coffee! gail
I love the beautiful selection of tulips you have in your garden. I’ve never have much luck with the hybrid types but I did plant some species types this past fall. So cute. 🙂
Hi Frances, you have the most array of lovely tulips. I wish they would do here but it’s way too hot. I do love them but can only enjoy them in someone else’s {?} garden.
On the mend so will try to catch up reading your blog. Missed so much.
Wow, that’s so impressive. I must admit that with bulb, I quickly forget what’s what. I’m impressed you remember them all — and they’re so beautiful.
It’s like the flower is saying, “HELLLOOOO”!
I admire your tenacity in keeping all the various tulips (and other plants) organized & named. I’m usually just happy to see the colors pop up and call them red tulips, purple tulips, white tulips, etc…!! Yours are varied and lovely.
Frances, I’m impressed with your ability to name each of these varieties (yes, even the “orange from Walmart”). The fall of 08 I went on a tulip planting frenzy and meticulously wrote down every variety and drew a little diagram where each was planted. But this year even though I did find my notes, I found that many of the tulips were suddenly in different places, and a few didn’t show up at all. And then there are those red and purple tulips in the new flowerbed that I have no memory of planting at all! Perhaps some of your garden fairies have been at work in my garden.
Sorry, I just realized I was going on and on about the mysterious tulips in my garden and didn’t even mention how lovely all of yours are! It’s hard to pick a favorite–when it comes to tulips, I love every color.
I have started cataloging all my tulips, too. I think I finally got all of them listed in a spreadsheet – 53 different varieties! And after seeing all these great tulips, it looks like it is going to get bigger. My favorite is the batalinii. I am putting that on my “to get” list. I have been trying to get my hands on Spring Green, but Breck’s is always out of stock. Some of my bulbs came from Walmart too.
I just found out about Brent and Becky’s. In fact, just two days ago I linked them due to their fantastic online catalog. I will give them a shot. I order from Breck’s because of the coupons they give out all the time 🙂
What glories they are and what a magnificent collection you have here. I need more…
Darling Frances, I´m so happy to visit you again… happiness is everywhere around your gorgeous garden these days!!!! Spring has showered all its beauty right into your place, how beautiful everything IS!!!!!!
Saw the shed in your garden, how lovely!!
Many hugs to you,
Maria Cecilia
I so regret never making it to Holland during Tulip season!
Thank goodness for Tulip pictures on blogs 😉
I’m sure you know about tulip mania, that period in Dutch history when folks spent thousands on a single bulb. Semper Augustus is known for being the most expensive at that time. Have you searched for it?
Beautiful tulips, mine either don’t come back or come back stunted and gnarled. Of course I usually get them planted a little late too. 😉
Beautiful! I’m afraid I’m a bit far south for tulips to repeat well. Most people here treat them as annuals, expensive ones. I plant a few, because they are so lovely.
Tulips are so difficult here that I have given up on the few rather dull plump ones we can lay our hands on. Still – I have access to so many native bulbs that I guess I shouldn’t covet… but such is the way of man…
I do think I should take a leaf out of your documenting book though – or is that a flower? A very good idea to do this – perhaps I will be sufficiently in charge of my life by next spring to start… 😉