Species tulips are becoming more widely available as gardeners wake up to their elegant shapes, vibrant-colored flowers, and suitability for growing in containers, raised beds, and rock gardens. Unlike garden hybrids, species tulips will flower each year without being replaced and will even colonize under the right conditions. Wilford's experience of growing tulips at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, informs his excellent cultivation advice. Comprehensive descriptions of gardenworthy species and lesser-known rarities will appeal to tulip and bulb collectors, rock garden enthusiasts, and keen gardeners, inspiring closer investigation of this increasingly popular plant group.
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"Tulips contains a wealth of useful information on how to select and grow these most popular of bulbs. It would make a great companion to use in conjunction with photo-laden bulb catalogs."
—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, February 15, 2006 (Seattle Times )
"A beautifully illustrated, comprehensively knowledgeable, professionally informative, in-depth introduction to the many varying species of [this] delicate and powerful flower. ... Recommended to all readers with an interest in growing tulips and in need of the ultimate guide to their numerous variations."
—Midwest Book Review, April 2006 (Midwest Book Review )
"Wilford's experience with tulips is vast, and his confident prose takes the reader by the hand and gently leads the curious into the wild world of this familiar perennial." Biology Digest, April 2006 (Biology Digest )
—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, February 15, 2006 (Seattle Times )
"A beautifully illustrated, comprehensively knowledgeable, professionally informative, in-depth introduction to the many varying species of [this] delicate and powerful flower. ... Recommended to all readers with an interest in growing tulips and in need of the ultimate guide to their numerous variations."
—Midwest Book Review, April 2006 (Midwest Book Review )
"Wilford's experience with tulips is vast, and his confident prose takes the reader by the hand and gently leads the curious into the wild world of this familiar perennial." Biology Digest, April 2006 (Biology Digest )
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Species tulips are widely appreciated for their elegant shapes, vibrant-colored flowers, and suitability for growing in containers, raised beds, and rock gardens. Wilford's excellent cultivation advice and comprehensive descriptions of gardenworthy species and prized rarities will appeal to tulip and bulb collectors, rock garden enthusiasts, and keen gardeners.
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An in-depth introduction to the many varying species of the delicate and powerful flower,
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This review is from: Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener (Hardcover)
Tulips: Species And Hybrids For The Gardener by Richard Wilford (Collections Manager, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England) is a beautifully illustrated, comprehensively knowledgeable, professionally informative, in-depth introduction to the many varying species of the delicate and powerful flower -- the tulip. Tulips: Species And Hybrids For The Gardener as an expert analysis and informative study of the many beautiful types and spectrum of this universally popular flower. Tulips: Species And Hybrids For The Gardener covers the care, placement, intricacies of individual species, color, history, and so much more. is recommended to all readers with an interest growing tulips and in need of the ultimate guide to their numerous variations.
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This review is from: Tulips: Species and Hybrids for the Gardener (Hardcover)
In his study of the Tulip, Richard Wilford of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, provides a comprehensive consideration of various aspects under the headings: Geography, The Tulip Plant, Cultivation, and History & Classification; the book also includes suggestions as to where to buy species tulips in Canada, the UK and the US. There is also a Glossary, Bibliography and an Index.
The major part of the book looks at the individual species with detailed descriptions. Also listed is the genus Amana, and the more popular garden hybrids are also briefly considered under the various classifications. The plant descriptions are detailed and informed, often include notes on the species' history and specific comments on cultivation; Wilford occasionally offers his own opinions to a species' worth and use in the garden - making the descriptions very practical. Entires vary in length from a short paragraph to two or more pages for the more interesting species. The book is illustrated with over 100 colour photographs varying in size from about a quarter to half a page, plus a one or two maps and drawings. The photographs appear alongside the plant entries, but far from all the plants listed are illustrated. A valuable addition to the gardener's library.
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The go to book on tulips,
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Few flowers have inspired the devotion (or generated the literature) that tulips have. I have managed to acquire a whole bookshelf of books on the genus over the years--some of them coffee table sized, full of glossy pictures, and others thick volumes like Anna Pavord's magnum opus. It's this rather compact quarto that delivers the goods. Richard Wilford covers the entire gamut of tulip species succinctly, but eloquently, sticking to facts. He also has a good overview of the principal tulip hybrids and their uses. He gives authoritative and thorough descriptions and adds valuable information on when and how each species was discovered and introduced, and provides great cultural hints (skewed naturally to Britain). The pictures are many and very well photographed. I have enjoyed poring through and find whenever I pause that I end up reading pages at a time: if you love tulips this is the book for you! You won't regret buying it.
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four glaucous, bulb tunic, obovate inner tepals, pubescent point, few straight hairs, outer tepals, glabrous filaments, bulb frame, tulip species, black basal blotch, small black blotch, lowest reaching, orphan idea, lowest leaf, pubescent stem, other tulips, tulip fire, tulip plant, hybrid tulips, undulate margins, elongated style, growing tulips, ciliate margins, yellow filaments, solitary flower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tien Shan, Pamir Alai, Eduard Regel, Sir Daniel Hall, Aleksei Vvedensky, Royal Botanic Gardens, Award of Garden Merit, Gilbert Baker, Caucasus Mountains, Single Early, Edmund Boissier, Flora of Turkey, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, North Africa, Flora Iranica, Henry Elwes, John Hoog, Otto Stapf, Zinaida Botschantzeva, Altai Mountains, Greigii Group, Flora Orientalis, Kaufmanniana Group, Albert Regel, Aral Sea New!
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four glaucous, bulb tunic, obovate inner tepals, pubescent point, few straight hairs, outer tepals, glabrous filaments, bulb frame, tulip species, black basal blotch, small black blotch, lowest reaching, orphan idea, lowest leaf, pubescent stem, other tulips, tulip fire, tulip plant, hybrid tulips, undulate margins, elongated style, growing tulips, ciliate margins, yellow filaments, solitary flower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tien Shan, Pamir Alai, Eduard Regel, Sir Daniel Hall, Aleksei Vvedensky, Royal Botanic Gardens, Award of Garden Merit, Gilbert Baker, Caucasus Mountains, Single Early, Edmund Boissier, Flora of Turkey, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, North Africa, Flora Iranica, Henry Elwes, John Hoog, Otto Stapf, Zinaida Botschantzeva, Altai Mountains, Greigii Group, Flora Orientalis, Kaufmanniana Group, Albert Regel, Aral Sea New!
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- North Africa (Exploration of Africa) by John G. Hall on page 69, page 82, and page 152
- Flora of Turkey, Volume 7: Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Vol. 7 by P. H. Davis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington on page 59, and page 127
- Flora of Cyprus Volume 2 by R D Meikle in Back Matter
- Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands by Adil Guner in Back Matter
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