Tulip

[totp]

Does anyone know of a good website offering information on all the different tulip varieties? I can find lots of advice from bulb companies but I was hoping to find something a bit more independent; a bit like the clematis website :http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/.

and can anyone recommend varieties that come back year after year - or at least a few years. I hate throwing them away and i don't have the space to lift them and let them build up.

[Ladygardener]

I'm not sure if Sarah Raven sends to Warsaw totp but check out the website. www.sarahraven.com/shop/plants-and-seedlings/for-autumn-planting/tulips.html

[Jasmine]

The Viridiflora Tulips are supposed to be good at coming back @topt. In fact SR is selling a collection of Viridiflora Tulips this year labelled as perennial tulips.
Otherwise it's a bit hit and miss in my garden. Some Verona tulips came back really well this year - I'd forgotten to tip them out of their pot!... and I think if you can get past a bit of a poor second year that tulips often do better in their third or subsequent years but that's just what it seems like to me.

[Ladygardener]

The other thing I've thought of is that the species tulips do seem to come back every year and there's a chance they'll naturalise too totp.

[Rosefriend]

I agree that the botanical/species Tulips do seem to come back each year and last a few years if planted a little deeper totp.

We can have deep minus temps on this side of the water and I have stopped buying expensive tulips, except for botanical/species ones as if I am lucky I get just a couple in the following year from about 40!!

I have started having tulips in tubs, especially this year as Jasmine is having a spring bulb container compy...which of course can contain anything !!

gardenworld.proboards.com/post/492353/thread

I don't think that I would go back to planting tulips in the ground except to use as annuals, of course!!

RF