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Apr 15, 2013 3:33 PM CST
Name: Becky
WI
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All of your hard work planting really paid off, Rita...everything is just stunning!
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Apr 15, 2013 4:09 PM CST
Name: Natalie
North Central Idaho (Zone 7a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Dog Lover Daylilies Irises Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Hummingbirder
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I agree Hurray! I'm so glad that you are sharing it with all of us!
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Apr 15, 2013 4:18 PM CST
Name: Greg Colucci
Seattle WA (Zone 8b)
Sempervivums Sedums Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Garden Ideas: Level 1
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I agree Totally beautiful! I tip my hat to you.
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Apr 15, 2013 4:51 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Thanks! I love to take pictures to post.
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Apr 15, 2013 8:00 PM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
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Hey, Rita, do you still have easy access to the tomato research/report you gave to us last Fall? If you do, would you repost the results on the OT thread?
It’s okay to not know all the answers.
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Apr 15, 2013 9:08 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Ok, I reposted it.
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Apr 16, 2013 8:30 AM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
Plays in the sandbox Butterflies Region: Texas Garden Sages I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member
Thank you. Smiling
It’s okay to not know all the answers.
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Apr 16, 2013 2:26 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
I have decided that I really need more tulips that come back for me year after year so that I don't have to replant everywhere. Species are one of the ways I am going to go. Not to give up my modern tulips but in addition too them.

I have made some decisions on the species, I know where I will put them around the garden. So I have decided on --
Wilsonia
bakeri Lilac Wonder
Little Beauty
Little Princess
humilis violacea (yellow base that Scheepers carries)
humilis Eastern Star
humilis Persian Pearl
linifolia 'Red Hunter'
orphanidea whittallii
Taco clusiana Kaufmanniana hybrid
Ice Stick clusiana Kaufmanniana hybrid
clusiana straight species
clusiana var.Tinka
clusiana var. chrysantha
clusiana var. stellata
clusiana Lady Jane
clusiana Peppermint Stick


You will notice that my list is strong on clusianas. I find the pictures just stunning and would love to have a variety in my own garden.

All these I have listed and decided on because I have sources of them, I can just order them for fall. And I will do that!

I have already planted vvedenskyi Tangerine Beauty and humilis violacea black base.
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Apr 16, 2013 2:28 PM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
Plays in the sandbox Butterflies Region: Texas Garden Sages I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member
Already looking forward to NEXT year's photos! Hurray!
It’s okay to not know all the answers.
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Apr 16, 2013 2:43 PM CST
Name: Natalie
North Central Idaho (Zone 7a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Dog Lover Daylilies Irises Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Hummingbirder
Frogs and Toads Native Plants and Wildflowers Cottage Gardener Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Region: United States of America Xeriscape
I agree Me too!

Rita, before you started talking about all these tulips, I honestly had no idea that there were so many different ones!
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Apr 16, 2013 2:53 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Debra, you were saying you wanted perennial tulips. Clusiana don't even need a chill period, they would do extra good in the south. And they are supposed to be very drought tolerant once established.

I am including this link to some info because that picture on the page is so stunning. You can see why Clusiana are sometimes referred to as candy cane tulips.

http://www.greatplantpicks.org...
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Apr 16, 2013 2:57 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Natalie said:
Rita, before you started talking about all these tulips, I honestly had no idea that there were so many different ones!


There are a lot, lot more species tulips than the ones I have listed. It's just that these are the ones I found that appealed to me. I will never give up my fancy tulips but its a garden, it can easily have both.

And there are other tulips that are truely perennial besides species. I think more people would grow all of these of they were more aware of them.
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Apr 16, 2013 4:35 PM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
Plays in the sandbox Butterflies Region: Texas Garden Sages I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member
Thank you, Rita! I will try those. Thumbs up
It’s okay to not know all the answers.
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Apr 16, 2013 8:18 PM CST
Name: Natalie
North Central Idaho (Zone 7a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Dog Lover Daylilies Irises Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Hummingbirder
Frogs and Toads Native Plants and Wildflowers Cottage Gardener Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Region: United States of America Xeriscape
Rita, I agree on more people growing them if they knew about them. All of mine are very hardy and come back year after year, but I guess they are just generic tulips, but in different beautiful colors and sizes. They do put on an awesome show every year though, so I wouldn't change them! Except for the part where I'm leaving them behind when I move! Guess I'll have to check into getting some new ones!
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Apr 17, 2013 2:46 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Can't remember the name of this one but it starts with an M. I got it as a free bonus bulbs from American Meadows last year. Pretty flowers but they are small. But I like it.


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It is growing in the narrow rose bed I have off the patio and by the house.


Daffs in the garden by the front yard shrubs.
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Daff February Gold is new this year. Next year I hope it blooms earlier. I bought it because it is an early variety!


Daffs in my southside rose garden.
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The tulips are really starting to shine out in the front yard.
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The early tulips in back of the two daylily rows are almost ready to open. Just a few of the dark purple ones(I have a color mix) have opened today. It really looks great when they bloom.
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And the first of the Firespray tulip is open also. Most of them are still in bud though.
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Closeup of a tulip grouping out there.
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Ok, now moving on to the backyard. The bed of Greigii tulips with Sundance most prominent as usual.
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this one is now blooming in that bed also.
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Closeup of sundance


And a lonely hyacinth
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Apr 17, 2013 3:07 PM CST
Name: Debra
Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a)
Rescue dogs: Angels with paws needi
Dragonflies Dog Lover Bookworm I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Photography Bee Lover
Plays in the sandbox Butterflies Region: Texas Garden Sages I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member
Pretty! Thumbs up
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Apr 17, 2013 3:12 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
I wish you all could see it in person. Pictures are nice but it looks sooooooo great in real life.
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Apr 17, 2013 4:09 PM CST
Name: Linda
Tucson, Arizona
Morning Glories Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Region: United States of America Amaryllis Hummingbirder
Region: Southwest Gardening Echinacea Roses Birds Seed Starter Plumerias
Lovely Rita. Wish we could smell that hyacinth. Smiling Mine are all done blooming for the season. They were all in pots.
" And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden" Genesis 2:8
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Apr 17, 2013 5:01 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
I planted 25 mixed colors hyacinths. I don't know what happened but only 7 came up. This is the first too bloom though.

I am crazy. I already ordered bulbs JUST NOW!!!! I ordered 825 tulips from Colorblends.

got-
25 Scarlet Baby
100 Bloomsday
100 Polka Dots
100 Rex Ray
100 Three Queens
100 Humilis Violacea
100 Parrot Blend
200 Red Hunter

Thus is the first bulb order out of many that I am sure I will do for this fall. Its actually much smaller than last years order from Colorblends. The Bloomsday, Three Queens and Parrott Blend are replacements for those three I have this year and haven't bloomed yet. I am planting them again in exactly the same spots as I just know they will not come back. But I want them where they are year after year just as if they magicly came up by themselves! Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing

The Humilis Violacea I got last year, love it and want some more. The rest is new for me.
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Apr 17, 2013 5:33 PM CST
Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset
North Fl. (Zone 8b)
Garden Sages Region: Ukraine Native Plants and Wildflowers Xeriscape Organic Gardener I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Charter ATP Member Plant Identifier Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Dog Lover
OMG! Spring has sprung at Rita's house. Your yard is certainly a show stopper. Someone should tell Better Homes & Gardens about your place Rita. Whistling

Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!

And you should get an honorary acorn badge for your gardens! Since I can't do that I will do what I can. Here Rita:
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sorry, my finger would be worn out if I did 5,000 of them. Rolling on the floor laughing
I am a strong believer in the simple fact is that what matters in this life is how we treat others. I think that's what living is all about. Not what I've done in my life but how I've treated others. ~~ Sharon Brown

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