Lambley Nursery Bulb Catalogue : T

Stocks from the 2010 bulb catalogue are no longer available. Remaining stocks have been replanted and shall be available again in 2011.

Triteleia

Triteleia laxa ‘The Giant’ - Giant Ithurial’s Spear

In Milton’s Paradise the Lost Archangel Ithuriel was sent by Gabriel to search for Satan in paradise. Triteleia “The Giant’ grows more than twice as tall as the better known ‘Queen Fabiola’, has more and larger, blue upward facing flowers to a head and blooms a few weeks, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tritonia

Tritonia crocata - Blazing Star

This bright orange flowered South African bulb blooms during late spring here at Lambley. Easily grown both inland and on the coast it produces Freesia like flowering stems which carry bright orange flowers. Happy if kept fairly dry during summer. 25cm x 15cm.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa

Each year Criss and I plant several thousand Dutch tulip bulbs. But these horticultural triumphs, the result of centuries of assiduous breeding in the bulb fields of Holland, are not the only tulips that grow in the garden here at Lambley. Wild tulips, native to the Central, more...

Tulipa eichleri

This tulip, from north west Iran and adjacent countries, is one of the largest flowered and showiest of all the wildlings. Anna Pavord writes in her book ‘The Tulip’ that it has “enormous, showy flowers ....... a clear bright crimson-scarlet with a brilliant sheen on the, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa fosteriana ‘Princeps’

An easily grown species found growing wild near Samarkand in Uzbekistan. It has been used widely in hybridising the Dutch tulips especially the Darwin cultivars. T. ‘Princeps’ is lower growing than others in this group. It has very large fiery red flowers, with a yellowish, more...

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Tulipa fosteriana ‘Purissima’ (syn. ‘White Empress’)

This much loved tulip is widely used in English gardens as it doesn’t need the summer baking that many of the other wild tulips need. Large milky white flowers are produced on 40cm tall stems. 40cm x 12cm.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa greigii ‘Cape Cod’

An early flowering tulip which has yellow flowers with a red stripe on the outside of the petals. It has a black base on the inside of the flower.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa greigii ‘Red Riding Hood’

Anna Pavord writes in her book The Tulip “Beautifully formed urn-shaped flowers of vivid scarlet with jet black bases. Dark spreading foliage is mottled with brownish purple.” Early flowering.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa greigii ‘Toronto’

One of the last to flower this multi flowered tulip has two or three flowers per stem. The flowers are salmon-orange with pink undertones.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa humilis ‘Odalisque’

“....deep beetroot purple flowers, yellow at the centre.” This dwarf species, reaching a few inches in height, comes from western Iran, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa linifolia

A low growing bright scarlet flowered tulip with a purple blotch at the base of each petal.It hails from the Pamir Altai in Central Asia as well as Iran and Afghanistan. It grows up to 20cm tall and the flowers are about 10cm across when fully open.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa montana

Richard Wilford in his indispensible book Tulips writes “This really is one of the most alluring of the smaller tulip species.” It grows wild on the stony hills of North West Iran and is one of the best tulips to try in areas where the winters are relatively warm. It is of, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa praestans ‘Zwanenberg’

Tulipa praestans was introduced into gardens during the latter part of the 19th century by Russian explorers of its home in the wild Central Asian mountains. Tall growing with up to four large flowers to each stem it is one of the most showy of all wild tulips. The variety, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa saxatilis

One of the three tulips to be found on Crete (it grows on Rhodes too as well as south western Turkey) this species has made itself at home in the Dandenongs, where it grows and flowers en masse in at least one garden, and also in the garden at Buda in Castlemaine. It is, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa tarda

White tipped yellow stars on short stems, generally about 10cm tall, are produced sometimes half a dozen or more to each bulb. This tulip grows on “...rocky slopes in the Tien Shan.” It is very easy to grow in the garden.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa turkestanica

Whilst the individual flowers are quite small they are so abundantly produced that his easy tulip should be in every garden. White yellow throated stars open quite early in September. Our form grows to about 20cm tall but flowering height varies with the season and the garden.

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.

Tulipa urumiensis

A dwarf flowered species which was first collected from the hills surrounding Lake Urmia in north western Iran about seventy years ago. It has never been collected again. Easy to grow, it is related to the much taller T. sylvestris and has the same green back to its clear, more...

Available again in our Bulb Catalogue, early 2011.