I'm glad Julie whipped you into shape, Kev! If she hadn't, I would have!! Yeppers, the chains would be out. Seriously, I enjoy looking at your species tulip pix. I have never seen species available here.

I have a few tulips in my garden that had a hard existence. Some were planted too close to the house and would emerge WAYYYYY too early and then gradually or suddenly freeze to death. (February in Manitoba has that effect!) The ones a bit further away got browsed by rabbits and just declined because they had very little foliage left to plump up their bulb reserves. I was literally down to a single plant when I decided to surround it with chicken wire. I've done it every year since and it gradually increased in size, with increasing number of blooms. I said a single plant, BUT either there was a second bulb surviving or it seeded itself because I now have two quite different flowers in my clump. How common is seeding for hybrid tulips?

Cheers,

Rob