the tulip tree is in magnolia family.........
and the tulips I found out today will be about the inside of your palm. The flowers are very discreet and some people involved with the big forest trees never even see them since they are so big and tall and the flowers are on the canopy but the one I have is old so it is leafing out a bit now............and will flower so you can see them and hundreds of them and hundreds of them bloomed last year and that was the first year that I bought the house here in the previous September and DID NOT SEE one tulip bloom although you could smell them blooming. but it did bloom apparently the arborist said at eye level and even mowed the grass under it and still did not see it.........
so this years will be the big things for sure.......
It is an odd species and that is hard to tell what is a leaf bud and what is flower bud..........
since the tree is way out of zone we are hoping some of the young ones make it if the mother can survive here unless it is like they thought and a micro climate setup with the big old maple giving it some protection.......
100 gardens is a lot of interest in the trees
he did mentioning layering the tulip branches but did not go into specifics on how to do that......
he suggestion was toss the dried out seeds and put in the freezer for the winter and bring out in the spring and plant shallow in a pot.....
I am going to go and put them in some natural places around in town here and see if one catches too..........
the big problem he says is the animals that feed off the tree............and there are plenty of them. I had a coon in the maple tree all summer, he slept during the day and ate the tulip pods at night time......
it is an interesting species for sure..........might even buy it a plaque of some kind........
