Each year when spring rolls around, many home gardeners wish they had been more foresighted the previous fall, especially when they see a thoughtfully planned garden, gay with tulips. You can plant tulips until the ground freezes, so why not plan to include them now in broad masses in the foreground of your shrub border … Read more
Have you heard about the tulipomania (tulip madness) which swept Holland in the seventeenth century? Now there’s a new furor over tulips the Darwin hybrids. Characterization of Darwin Hybrid Tulips These are characterized by unusually sturdy stems, long-lasting flowers, and colors that stay vivid through the vicissitudes of April, and early-May weather. Since the introduction … Read more
Tulip flowers surpass violets in scenting the air with a pervasive yet subtle fragrance. It is possible by selection to enjoy a variety of scents from the beginning to the end of the tulip season. So do tulips have a scent? The most pleasing tulip fragrance is that of freesias. In some tulips, this scent … Read more
How often have you heard someone say, “Oh, yes, tulips are beautiful, but they don’t stay that way, and I can’t afford to buy new ones every year or two?” It is unnecessary to buy new bulbs every fall to have a fine display each spring. It is true that old bulbs, left in the … Read more
Whether you know it as tulip poplar, whitewood, tulip tree, yellow poplar, or simply poplar, it is the same handsome giant, straight as a flagpole, with yellow-green and orange tuliplike blossoms nestling in June among big four-lobed leaves that turn to glow yellow when autumn comes. It has been rightly said that a tulip poplar … Read more