Comments on: Seasonal colour https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seasonal-colour/ Gardenvisit.com Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seasonal-colour/#comment-1032 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:54:57 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2388#comment-1032 Thanks for the tip! So about cultivars…[http://www.gardenstew.com/about409.html]and wild tulips. [http://www.colorblends.com/Wild-Tulips/]

]]> By: Marian https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seasonal-colour/#comment-1031 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:02:44 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2388#comment-1031 If it’s the history of tulips you’re after I recommend Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach – a great novel about the tulip trading and speculation period in Holland.

You don’t usually get the cultivars blooming in the snow in England as they are later, but the wild (species) ones do look lovely in your photo – worth a trip to Turkey, or Krygystan!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seasonal-colour/#comment-1030 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:25:21 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2388#comment-1030 The tulips look wonderful with the snow – I wonder if they survived the cold, or were frost damaged.
The first Mughal Emperor of India (Babur) was a great tulip-fancier. He collected them in the wild and grew them in his gardens. It is a great pity that the ‘British’ approach to Islamic garden management remains dominant. They should have lots of tulips!

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