These tulips have spread this year, and are a real spectacle again…. shame I don’t know their name!
I usually keep packets and labels, but with no system and some always get mislaid! Do you have any tips on how to record the names of your plants, and especially bulbs?
Are they TARDA tulips? They sort of look like mine!
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I haven’t heard that name before, but who knows – could be! Thanks Linda!
Cathy, your mystery tulips are beautiful. I keep a list of all the plants in a text file. Then I use it to label all (well almost all) my photos of the garden. I put out plastic labels this week when I planted some Anemone and found it tonight several feet away from where they’re planted. I think the birds must have wanted to incorporate the tag into a nest, but gave up.
Perhaps a Magpie fancied it! (Do you have Magpies?) I tried keeping a text file too Susie, but it was not updated regularly and then some plants didn’t come up the following year… 😉 I will make an effort from now on to write down all the plants I put in at least!
Oh my, my gardening is haphazard and rarely organized! The tulips are dazzling; spring has arrived!
Thanks for consoling me that I’m not the only one slightly disorganized! 😀
I used to keep a map of my plantings, which worked well for me before the days of digital cameras.
But now the tulips are ‘naturalising’ so beautifully, perhaps it doesn’t matter what they’re called – they’re such artless, wild looking flowers, anyway. 🙂
It doesn’t really matter at all – they are in any case lovely!
The closest to your picture I can come to in my current year’s bulb catalogues [remembering this IS Australia] IS [tulipa x hybrida middle-season] called CLAUDIA. I do not think they are quite the same but from a very similar family. Since they may have hybridized themselves and will multiply, I daresay it won’t really matter 🙂 ?
Thank you for looking it up – if I ever find out for sure I’ll let you know! 😀
Whatever their name will be, your “Mystery Tulips” are very beautiful. Perhaps they are a kind of
botanical tulips. Lovely pictures!
Thank you Elisabeth. Yes, I think you’re right. Some kind of botanical tulip. Now I’m beginning to search the internet for them!
Whatever its name it is very pretty, Cathy; it looks like a species type. I try (I don’t always succeed) to put everything into a spead sheet with name of plant, date and where planted plus any extra info that seems relavent. my bulbs are ordered on line so it isn’t too difficult to transfer the information.
I order online too, so I should copy the order forms…. and I should add where they were planted….
Or perhaps I’ll just stop worrying about the name and enjoy them! 😉 Thanks for your ideas Christina!
Reading some of the other comments, I’ve realised how terrible I am at labelling – there are so many ‘mystery’ plants in my garden! Your tulips look lovely in the sunshine.
Hello Sarah. They are namelessly beautiful, but I think I found them on Google images: Heart’s Delight… somehow the name rings a bell…..
From the Fairy Tale: “Ach, wie gut, daß niemand weiß, daß ich …. heiß” 🙂
Don’t know that one Uta! 😀
Really? You know “Rumpelstilzchen”. 🙂
I know the name, but not the story! 😦
Knowing the name, would be the saving of the main character in this fairy tale.
My plants have got the better of me but I was given a lovely notebook at Christmas so I am trying to keep a written note from now on, in chronological order of planting.
That’s another good idea – a good old-fashioned notebook! Now you’ve got me thinking! 😀
Love seeing any tulips as mine just don’t like my climate. Yhese are lovely.
The botanical ones are pretty tough, so they might do better than the later ones where you are. My only problem so far has been mice or squirrels either nibbling, digging up or “moving” the bulbs! 😉
Simply beautiful!
😀 When you start planting your garden Simone, take my advice and keep the plant and bulb labels in a safe place! It’s infuriating forgetting the names!
I’ll keep it in mind!
These are such dainty tulips! I’ve never seen any at all like them! Beautiful! 🙂
They do look delicate, but are tough too – they stood up to some heavy showers the last few days and still look lovely. 😀
They are gorgeous! I must admit I grow loads of tulips and never remember their names! Just enjoy them and remember how beautiful they looked is the best tip I can offer!
That’s good advice Anna – perhaps I’ll name them myself… 😉
Thanks for stopping by!