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Triteleia

Triteleia ‘Allure’

There has been nothing new in this range of easily grown bulbs for many years. Lambley imported several new clones from Holland three years ago and finally after time spent in quarantine and acclimatising to the Southern Hemisphere we have enough to sell. T ‘Allure’ produces, more...
5 bulbs for $9.00 or 25 for $40.00

Triteleia ‘Corrina’

Another new import from Holland. 50cm tall stems, carrying multi flowered heads of skyward looking star shaped flowers, each lavender blue petal with a darker mid vein. The flowers open during late spring and look wonderful growing through low ground covers such as, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 25 for $40.00

Triteleia ‘For You’

We recently iimported this taller selection of Triteleia laxa, with flowering stems reaching 50 - 60cm. Long lasting umbels of soft amethyst pink flowers are produced during late spring. Any sunny spot in the garden will suit. Our first release of this beautiful new variety.
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Triteleia ‘Royal Blue’

A first Australian release of this double flowered variety. It makes a perfect posy of double dark blue flowers and is perfect for picking for a late spring vase. Easy to grow in any sunny or lightly shaded position. 30cm by 5cm.
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Triteleia ‘Rudy Kleiner’

A startling white flowered form with a vivid purple stripe on each lobe of its upward facing bell. A new import which we have finally built up enough to sell a few this year. A web only bulb. Happy in full sun. The stiffly upright flower stem is 30 cm tall and carries up to, more...
3 bulbs for $8.00 or 10 for $25.00

Tulipa

Tulips

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 aucheriana

The smallest but not the least of all the tulips, this little charmer is known to grow in the wild in two small areas of Iran, the hills close to Tehran and another spot near Isfahan. The amethyst, yellow centred star like flowers are held on 5cm tall stems. It does very well, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Tulipa clusiana ‘Cynthia’

This exquisite tulip is a hybrid between the white and yellow forms of the Lady Tulip and was given an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1999. This is the highest award a plant can receive. T. ‘Cynthia’ has pale lemon-yellow flowers with a broad band, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Tulipa clusiana ‘Lady Jane’ - Lady Tulip

The much loved Lady Tulip, which should be in every garden, has been cultivated for hundreds of years. It flowers during September here at Lambley. The long lasting white flowers have a broad pink paint stroke on the reverse of the petals and are held on 30cm tall stems. A, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00, 10 for $25.00 or 100 for $200

Tulipa clusiana ‘Tubergen’s Gem’

This is a large flowered yellow form of Tulipa clusiana and is close to T. clusiana var. chrysantha. For the past twenty years I’ve grown this in the dry garden where it has increased well in a spot that is sunny during winter but covered by ornamental Origanums during, more...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

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...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

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

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.
5 bulbs for $10.00 or 25 for $45.00

Tulipa greigii
This variable species, from the wild forbidding mountains of Central Asia, was introduced into cultivation during the last quarter of the 19th century. Since then gardeners and nurserymen have made many different selections. Tulipa greigii is most easily distinguished by the, more...

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.
5 bulbs for $10.00 or 25 for $40.00

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.
5 bulbs for $10.00 or 25 for $40.00

Tulipa humilis ‘Lilliput’

One of the gems of the race, Tulipa humilis hails from the area where Turkey, Iraq and Iran meet. It grows very near the snowline and so needs to be kept moist in the spring until its foliage dies down otherwise it holds no terrors. ‘Lilliput’ has cardinal-red flowers with a, more...
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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.
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Tulipa humilis ‘Persian Pearl’

To quote Anna Pavord in her book The Tulip “‘Persian Pearl’ has flowers of a bright cyclamen-purple, each with a yellow base. The outside of the petals are washed over with pale grey.” Its growth habit is the same as the previous clone.
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

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...
3 bulbs for $10.00 or 10 for $30.00

Tulipa praestans ‘Fuselier’

This variety was given the Royal Horticultural Societies highest accolade, the Award of Garden Merit, in 1993. Up to seven”.....glowing orange-scarlet” flowers are produced by each bulb although the number is more likely to be four.
3 bulbs for $10.00 or 10 for $28.00

Tulipa praestans ‘Zwanenburg’

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. Tulipa, more...
3 bulbs for $10.00 or 10 for $28.00

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...
3 bulbs for $9.00 or 10 for $25.00

Tulipa sylvestris

This tulip has increased more than any other in our garden. It has naturalised in rough grass where in September hundreds of large yellow starry flowers open from green buds often two to a 35cm tall stem. Another of the stoloniferous species, Tulipa sylvestris will soon make, more...
5 bulbs for $9.00 or 25 for $40.00

Tulipa vvedenskyi ‘Tangerine Beauty’

Endemic to the western Tien Shan mountain range where it was first found growing south-east of Tashkent, in hills above the Angren River valley, during the early 1950s. The exceptionally large, orange-red flowers are produced on 20cm tall stems. It has grown well in our thyme, more...
3 bulbs for $12.00 or 10 for $36.00

Tulipa whittallii

If I could grow only one wild tulip this would be it. It has made a wonderful display in the dry garden here at Lambley for 15 years, increasing well each year. The burnt orange flowers are held on 35cm tall stems well above the patch of Euphorbia myrsinites through which it, more...
3 bulbs for $10.00 or 10 for $30.00