Lilac, white and black tulips
There are not many tulips of this color, but they are especially attractive.
Let's list some of them:
- lilac lilac tulips: "Mautime", "Abbey Dream", "China pink";
- fringed varieties: "Fringit Elegance", "Elegy";
- parrot tulips: Blue Parrot, Discovery.
Take a note: Lilac flowers are usually given to close family, friends, and business associates as they show respect, loyalty, and loyalty.
White can be combined with almost any color or shade both in a flower garden and in a bouquet.
Among the lily-colored tulips, painted in a white shade, it is worth highlighting the following varieties: "Ballad White", "Vridge Lady", "Ice Wing", "Tormodel", "Sapporo".
White varieties from the Simple Early group will adorn any flower arrangement: Pelican, Poterrbaker, Cadet. No doubt the fringed white varieties will be liked: Visionair, Swang Wings, Exotic, Relay, Gambridge, Christie Moon.
Did you know: the desire to create a black tulip has always occupied the minds of scientists. To date, several varieties have been created, which are conventionally called almost black.
Although these tulips are painted in black and blue, in dark purple and black and burgundy shades, they do not bring melancholy and discouragement.
There are not many flowers of such shades, but when they grow and bloom, they cause surprise and a desire to touch.
So, black tulips:
Are there blue tulips?
Among the perennials of the bulbous lily family, tulips are considered the most popular. These flowers are the personification of spring and the holiday, they are distinguished by their graceful shape and a varied palette of colors, from the usual red to blue tulips. This graceful flower was sung by Persian poets and writers of the 12th century, then tulips were already decorating flower beds, and many varieties have become obsolete since then. Iran is considered the birthplace of this oriental handsome man, from where the flower was brought to Turkey, and then came to Europe. Currently, more than 10 thousand varieties of this plant are known, about 2000 different colors are distinguished by shades, this includes both one-color and multi-colored species.
Tulips in garden design
Flowers are planted in flower beds, lawns, under trees. It is convenient to plant tulips next to hosts, astilbe, phlox. When tulips bloom, leaves and stems of such plants will grow back.
Terry and non-terry varieties planted next to it look very beautiful.
Landscape designers advise planting spring flowers in groups with irregular edges, avoiding straight lines and strict geometric shapes.
A huge carpet of one-color tulips over large areas makes a strong impression.
The material was prepared using A. Tumanov's book "The Encyclopedia of the Summer Resident".
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The author of the article is Olga Smirnova
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And again about the language of flowers
The language of flowers has long been forgotten, and rarely does anyone now speak with bouquets. But he (the language) can express any feeling: from recognition and respect to deep strong love, from condolences to admitting guilt and asking for forgiveness.
As for tulips, even without knowing the way to convey your feelings with flowers, you can understand that they carry spring warmth, hope, happiness. They are one of the first to appear after the end of a long winter and personify a kind of awakening after cold weather, blizzards and snowstorms, fill with optimism. The beautiful scent of these flowers alone can relieve depression and melancholy.
If you collect all the meanings of this spring plant, remember the legends about it and poems, it becomes clear that, whatever one may say, the tulip is a flower of love. After all, thanks to this very feeling, he was born.
Lilac, burgundy, orange tulips
Few tulips have been created in pure lilac and burgundy shades, but there are many more mixed and transitional shades.
For example, such as lilac-pink, lilac-lilac, burgundy-red and burgundy-crimson.
Varieties painted in these colors combine well with pale pink, black, pink and white tulips.
Orange tulips go well with yellow, red and purple flowers.
Among the lily flowers, the following varieties stand out: "Sinade Orange", "Ballerina", "Orange Moon". The following varieties, colored in orange, are also in demand: Orange Bouquet, Charada, Rococo Orange, Orange Queen, Ornage Princesses, Orangevoorst, Brigt Irene.
White
White tulips are irreplaceable in the garden, their creamy, creamy and yellowish shades look great among the greenery, perfectly emphasize the advantages of brightly colored neighbors - red, "black", raspberry varieties.
Variety Angels Wish (2007), bred by the famous Latvian originator Vytauts Skuiji, is the result of work with simple early tulips and Darwin hybrids. The variety inherited from the "Darwins" an oval glass and a powerful strong peduncle. In semi-dissolution, the glass is yellowish with a lemon back. As it blooms, it becomes snow-white. Recorded in 2008
Of the terry white beauties, I would like to note the old (1949) variety Cardinal Mindszenty (Cardinal Mindszenty). Terry early tulip, spore from Madame Testout, 25-30 cm high, very effective in group planting. In the bud, it is yellowish with a green back, in the dissolution it is pure white, the back is pale yellow. The tips of the petals are pointed.
In full dissolution, the flowers reach 10-12 cm in diameter. Planted in the fall, 7-8 bulbs of the Madame Testou variety turn into a profusely blooming clump in the spring.
Blue tulips
Tulip Alibi (Tulipa Alibi)
Tulip Barracuda (Tulipa Barracuda)
Tulipa Blue Diamond
Tulipa Blue Heron
Tulipa Blue Parrot
Tulip Cummins
Tulip Lilac Perfection
Tulip Louvre
Tulip Passionale
Tulipa Purple Cloud
Tulipa Purple Peony
Tulip Violet Prana (Tulipa Violet Prana)
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About the yellow tulip
Thanks to one famous song, everyone believes that yellow tulips mean separation, pain, betrayal and everything related to this. And that if a guy gives his girlfriend such flowers, then he is going to part with her. But in reality, this is far from the case. There is even a very beautiful legend that refutes all suspicions about this beautiful flower.
According to legend, true happiness was hidden precisely in the yellow tulip, more precisely, in its closed bud. And no one was able to get it, because the flower did not open under any pretext and despite the application of force. And once the plant fell into the hands of the baby, and opened up in his hands. The flower blossomed thanks to the purity, innocence and spontaneity of a child's soul, a real sincere joy that only a child is capable of.
And these concepts have nothing to do with betrayal and parting.
Color value
Flower language is the oldest way to convey your feelings and emotions to another person. Variants of the meaning of tulips in this language differ depending on their color. They can be white, yellow, red - whatever. And each color contains some meaning.
If you know what a certain species or variety of a beautiful plant symbolizes, then you can say and express a lot without words.
- White tulips mean tenderness, sensitivity, warmth, delight. They give a person happiness in the area of love. By itself, the white color speaks of the purity, sincerity of a person's feelings. That is, to receive such a gift as white tulips means that the person who presented them is completely in love with the person who is giving the bouquet.
- Yellow does not mean separation at all, as it spins on the tongue. It is a symbol of joy, pleasure and happiness. This is on the one hand. And there are also claims that these yellow flowers mean new profits. And as a gift, they say that they wish the recipient of the bouquet financial well-being or that it enriches the life of the one who gives it.
- Red tulips are strong, fiery love, passion, delight! They can replace the first declaration of love.
- Pink - tenderness, grace, youth. They symbolize the beginning of a relationship, therefore they are presented undisclosed. They are presented in honor of tender, platonic love.
- Lilac tulips - sympathy, warmth, friendship, loyalty. They can also be given as a sign of recognition of talent and genius.
- Orange tulips - a wish of good health, good mood.
- Blue tulips. There is a belief that anyone who sees a blue tulip will catch luck in all his affairs and personal life, because this is what a flower of this color means. It will bring happiness, prosperity and prosperity to the finder, which will "march" side by side until the end of days.
These exquisite flowers with a delicate, delicate scent are a great way to express love.
It doesn't matter what color they are, tulips still symbolize only good - unconditional love, warmth and harmony, glory and pride, great happiness
Blue tulips, or It's never too early to go for miracles!
The Netherlands has generally brought the production of flower products to the level of a national idea. A small, in general, country, provides planting material not only to Europe and Asia, but also to the USA and Canada! Growable varieties and hybrids have been created even for the most extreme weather conditions! Therefore, the most common and purchased souvenirs in the capital of the Kingdom are bulbs of all kinds of colors: giant decorative bows, hippeastrum, daffodils, muscari and undoubted favorites - tulips. Hunters for rarities and novelties go to the markets of Amsterdam from all over the world. And, in my opinion, they never leave empty-handed.
At least I have never seen people who visited flower markets without a bag of purchases.For the most ardent buyers, the sellers have in store volume bags with images of bright pastoral Dutch subjects: tulip fields, windmills and cows ... Interestingly, as in the last few centuries, the most bought flower is ... a black tulip. This is, one might say, the most unshakable classics.
For reference: the black tulip was bred by order of the black residents of the city of Harlem (Harlem is a city in the Netherlands that gave the name to the rest, including the New York area), as the personification of the beauty of people with black skin. In order to fulfill this order, it took flower growers several years, finally, in 1637, the flower was presented to the general public. The performance, which was attended by crowned heads and botanists from all over the world, was accompanied by a lush and colorful carnival, and the flower itself stood proudly in an expensive crystal vase.
Black tulip flower bulbs were worth more than gold and diamonds. "King of the Sun" - Louis XIV, gave his favorite a "Harlem tulip", which cost the French treasury a huge amount - five thousand livres, and the gardeners spent five years of work on it. Yet it was not a real black tulip, its petals were deep purple. A real black tulip, absolutely black, was bred in 1986 in the laboratories of the National Institute of Holland.
In general, tulips differ in all kinds of colors and shades. White, yellow, red, pink, purple, burgundy and the most intricate combinations of these colors. And the form? These are classic, and terry, and needle-like, and my favorite, parrot - cute mess. Add to this variety the height of the peduncles. It can be from 5 cm to 1 meter! And a novelty of recent years - multi-flowered tulips ...
Still, the ultimate dream of many collectors is blue tulips. For how many centuries the Dutch fought over the task of bringing out a flower of this color, they even watered the plantings with all kinds of dyes. All is in vain! And here's why: in the chromosomes of these bulbous ones there is no gene for the blue pigment of delphinidin, which is precisely responsible for the blue pigmentation of the petals. But the inhabitants of the country turned out to be too adventurous and brought the color of tulips to perfection: purple colors look like blue under certain lighting conditions!
I, too, could not resist buying a "blue" variety, and what if it is among my bulbs that there is one and the most, that neither is, royal blood ?! Meticulously inspecting the proposed sets of bulbs ... I understand something about this and will share with you.
Do not be lazy to ask the seller what type of these flowers: after all, they are: early flowering, medium flowering and late flowering, and also differ in the height of the peduncle and the shape of the corolla. This knowledge will allow you to choose varieties for planting so that their flowering is continuous, and will delight you throughout the spring.
Further. The bulb should be at least 3 cm in diameter, its integumentary scales are dark brown, dry and without visible signs of damage. Buy bulbs in the middle of winter? And this is not a problem: they can be easily stored in the refrigerator until planting ...
Now I am just waiting for the onset of spring, when the bulbs of Dutch tulips I bought will wake up to reveal a new miracle - the miracle of awakening incredible flower colors!
How to grow blue tulips
To bring out unusual shades of tulips, breeders have been working for more than one year, blue tulips are considered a real miracle of selection. What is their difference from other colors of this family? Blue tulips belong to the garden class Triumph, they were bred by crossing two varieties - Simple early and Darwin's hybrid. These flowers are distinguished by large goblet bowls, reaching a height of about 70 cm. The flowering period begins in late April.
The pigment delphinidin is responsible for the blue color of the petals, which is absent in the chromosomes of these bulbous plants.But the Dutch managed to achieve a purple color, which, depending on the lighting, looks like a blue with a blue tint. You can grow a tulip yourself using seeds, it is more difficult than working with bulbs and takes several years. When growing a plant from seed, it is possible to get your own variety. The bud of the bulb with this method of cultivation will appear only in the third year. In order not to replant the bulbs for the first three years, it is better to choose a greenhouse for growing. Four years later, in the spring, the bulb is transplanted into the ground.
Growing tulips at home is quite possible. In this case, the seeds are placed on moistened filter paper and placed in a freezer. If the temperature is maintained at + 5˚C, seedlings appear in three months, after which the seedlings can be transferred to a pot with light soil.
The main varieties of blue tulips and their characteristics
Famous varieties of blue tulips:
- Tulip Alibi (Tulipa Alibi);
- Barracuda (Tulipa Barracuda);
- Blue Diamond (Tulipa Blue Diamond);
- Blue Heron (Tulipa Blue Heron);
- Blue Parrot (Tulipa Blue Parrot);
- Cummins (Tulipa Cummins);
- Lilac Perfection (Tulipa Lilac Perfection);
- Louvre (Tulipa Louvre)
Tulip Alibi has a very delicate lilac color and delicate aroma, blooms for about three weeks. Barracuda belongs to the early flowering class, it has a tall stem and a beautiful purple color.
Blue diamond tulips are late terry varieties, distinguished by unusual and bright buds, reminiscent of peonies. It is a hardy plant suitable for temperate climates.
Blue Heron (fringed look) - have a needle-like fringe on the edges of the petals, creating the effect of flowers covered with hoarfrost. The color is blue-purple, the bulbs are planted a month before the onset of frost.
The most unusual color is the Blue Parrot tulips, the green bud, when opened, changes color to a rich lilac with a blue tint. Its petals are like a bird's feather. Bloom in late May.
Lovers of lavender color will like the Cummins variety, the flower petals are covered with snow fringes. These tulips love to be protected from strong winds and grown in a well-lit place. Flowering begins in early May.
Tulips of the terry class - Lilac Performance, bloom in May, are resistant to diseases - have a bright lilac color with a blue tint.
The Louvre is another variety of lilac-blue fringed tulips. An unpretentious variety, but loose soil is preferable for them.
Despite their quirkiness, blue and blue tulips are very popular nowadays and the demand for them is very high. Any shade of blue tulips chosen for planting will look unusual and presentable both in a flower garden and in a bouquet.
What kind of women love tulips?
By the way, the plant is not only capable of symbolizing something by itself, but also with its help you can determine the character of a woman (and a man, but rarely) who prefers this flower.
Who Loves Tulips? They are adored by natures with eccentricity and charisma. They are proud and independent, versatile and unusual, but at the same time sociable and diplomatic. Such women are open, but mysterious. It doesn't matter for them whether they are alone or in a couple, because they have such qualities as independence and self-sufficiency.
This is the character that a flower gives women!
Color combinations with blue in a flower bed
We have already talked about a monochrome flower bed, on which many shades of blue and blue can be picturesquely combined, but what about other colors? Is it possible to settle red, white or, for example, yellow in a flower garden next to blue?
Of course it is possible! However, in order not to overdo it with variegation and luridness, but to place spectacular bright accents, you first need to remember something about the rules of color design on a flower bed. So what do blue and cyan work best with?
Look at the color (coloristic) circle, it is very convenient to navigate along it in this matter.
Colors located directly opposite each other are called contrasting colors - you can see that for the blue spectrum these are yellow-orange
A competent and bold combination of such "opposite" flowers in the flowerbed will make your flower garden exceptionally bright, stylish and eye-catching. It is only desirable that the contrasting color generally occupy no more than a third of the blue flower garden.
There is one more nuance - warm shades of blue (aqua, turquoise) are better combined with the same warm shades of yellow (beige, cream, champagne, light coffee with milk, ivory), and cold ones should be combined with yellow neutral or cold.
There are close colors in the color wheel, which are close to the main one, with them successful combinations are also possible. For blue, such classics are the addition of colors of purple, fuchsia, pink, coral. Such combinations visually expand the space, so that the flower bed will seem larger and more luxuriant. As with a combination of contrasting colors, remember to choose tones that are close in saturation and warmth.
And, of course, any color, including blue, goes well with white, unless, of course, you are afraid to add "coldness" to your flower garden, which white will certainly do. But in addition, you will receive additional lightness and tenderness in the perception of the picture, as well as a visual increase in space due to white - that is, this combination is ideal for a small area.
But pure saturated red with the same blue is not the best combination for perception. The colors themselves are very strong, but in a pair they will be literally aggressive, reinforcing each other, exciting the nervous system and fatiguing the eyes. Perhaps the only possible combination of these colors is if you are seriously engaged in landscape design and, with the help of additional accessories, create on the site some kind of active space with a pronounced drama, for example, an oriental-style corner.
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Why do some tulips change color over time?
Contrary to all of the above, did your varietal tulips change color after 1-2 years? Alas, if you did not engage in targeted selection and did not grow them from seeds or plant two-color tulip hybrids on the site, and the flowers returned to the "wild" red color or became covered with multi-colored spots and stripes, it can be almost 100% said that they were struck by a viral disease. One of two things - either your tulips got sick with variegation, or white striping.
In the first case, the pathogen is Tulipa virus, which, during the flowering period, “paints” initially monochromatic flower petals with small, randomly located greenish (later they can turn into white, purple, yellow and even blue) stripes and spots. Over time, these arts are transferred to the leaves, and the tulips themselves shrink and wither. The virus is transmitted by leaf-eating and sucking insects through pollen and is not cured. Therefore, the infected flowers are dug up with a clod of earth and destroyed, and pests are regularly fought on the site. Also, a good measure is observance of crop rotation - plant tulips in one place no earlier than after 5-6 years.
In the second case, the disease is caused by another pathogen - Tobacco rattle virus, as a result of which not only white stripes appear on the leaves and petals of the tulip, but the flowers themselves become ugly and dwarf. Most often, this white striping is observed in tulips growing on acidic and nitrogen-rich soils. Alas, this disease is incurable - diseased tulips will have to be dug up and burned, and the entire soil should be regularly treated with deoxidizing agents for prevention purposes.
Certain varieties of tulips may be more or less susceptible to these diseases, so if you are still an inexperienced grower, carefully study the descriptions of the varieties before buying the bulbs. For example, Darwin's hybrids, Greig's and Kaufman's tulips are little susceptible to variegation virus.
In the world classification there is a separate group of Rembrandt tulips with variegated petals. Some inexperienced growers may confuse this class of tulips with flowers affected by variegated leaves, but these are completely healthy plants in which the virus is "turned off" - here the spots and strokes on the petals are fixed at the genetic level. The flowers of tulips of the Rembrandt class are large, have a goblet shape and are distinguished by spots and stripes that contrast with the main red, yellow or white color. Unfortunately, if tulips of this class fall ill with variegation, an inexperienced grower will almost never distinguish them from healthy plants, since the previous drawing of the petals of a variegated flower cannot be remembered exactly. Rembrandt tulips include varieties of different ripening periods and with different types of flowers: Prince Carnaval, Ice Follies, Sorbet, Orange Bowl, La Courtine (La Curtin), Mona Lisa (Mona Lisa), Olympic Flame, Princess Irene.
Also, a change in the color of a tulip, the appearance of streaks and spots on the leaves can be caused by banal improper care, a lack of any nutrients in the plant's diet, or even just aging.
It is most important to observe all the key agricultural techniques of tulips in areas with an unstable climate - some varieties and even entire groups of this plant may be unstable to the vagaries of the weather.
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As you can see, if you follow the rules of cultivation, you can safely plant any varieties of tulips next to each other without fear of “losing” their variety and decorativeness as a result of over-pollination.
Top dressing for tulips
It is impossible to grow varietal tulips without feeding. In order to admire the luxurious flowers that fully reveal the beauty of each variety, it is necessary to create conditions in which the plants will not lack nutrients. But at the same time, tulips do not like an excess of fertilizers, accumulation of salts in the soil. Systemic, but moderate procedures help to find the “golden mean” in feeding for these bulbous plants.
Tulips prefer easily digestible fertilizers dissolved in water. It is possible to scatter mineral fertilizers over the soil, but only by combining it with abundant watering and eliminating the risk of any fertilizer particles getting on the leaves, which must be dry, so you need to work very carefully).
Top dressing for tulips is applied several times per season:
In early spring
The first dressing for tulips is carried out as early as possible, applying fertilizer in the snow or immediately after it has melted. For early spring feeding, use a halved portion of complete mineral fertilizers (15-30 g per square meter of planting). Instead of universal fertilizers, you can use special mixtures for bulbous or tulips, a mixture of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers in a ratio of 2: 2: 1 in an amount of 40-45 g.
At the stage of budding
The second dressing for tulips is applied at the stage of flower stem and bud formation, supporting their normal development. For this top dressing, you can use only phosphorus-potassium fertilizers (25-35 g) or a mixture of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers with a different ratio - 1: 2: 2.
After flowering
This dressing is carried out to support the development of the daughter bulb and the optimal ripening of the bulbs for the winter. It is advisable to carry out top dressing exactly one week after the flowering of the plants, but it can also be applied at the peak or at the end of flowering.For the third top dressing, only phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are used in the amount of 30-35 g for each square meter of soil.
For small tulips and baby bulbs in growing, it is better to limit yourself to just two dressings - in the spring and at the budding stage.
Tulips prefer ammonium nitrate, double superphosphate and potassium nitrate, complex preparations for bulbous, containing not only macro-, but also microelements (boron, zinc are especially important for tulips).
Tulips, like many other bulbs, themselves signal improper feeding and nutrient needs. All three macronutrients are equally important for these bulbs. Therefore, it is impossible to reduce or eliminate nitrogen to obtain better flowering in these bulbous plants. With a lack of nitrogen in tulips, they become smaller, become narrower and droop, leaf plates lose their elasticity, flower stalks turn red, and the process of bulb replacement is disrupted. With a lack of potassium or phosphorus, tulips also signal this with their leaves, along the edges of which a bluish color appears, flowering and root system suffer. If you take measures in time and carry out additional feeding, you can prevent these problems in the development of plants and prevent the lack of certain nutrients from affecting also flowering and reproduction.
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