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  • 7 Tulips Deer Don’t Eat

    Oct 15, 2018 Categories: Annuals, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Vegetables

      Species Tulip - Acuminata Buy Now for Fall Planting! This is the third installment in a series about a remarkable class of tulips known as the Species Tulips. If you are archiving these newsletters the other two installments occurred on 9-8-2018 and 9-22-2018. For those of you who have deer, squirrels, bunnies, chipmunks and other critters that like to decimate the spring garden before it even sprouts, there are actually many bulbs that are critter resistant, in fact, there are tulips that are critter resistant. These tulips are known as Species Tulips. These are the original wild tulips collected from Persia, the Caucasus, Africa, Southern Europe, etc. Even today, wild species are still being discovered and cultivated for commercial sale. Understand, that after these wild species are collected and

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  • Species Tulip, Turkestanica

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Turkestanica " Circa 1875. A multi-flowering tulip with star-shaped, white flowers with greyish purple tinge and an orangish yellow base. Good naturalizer. HZ: 5-8 5”"

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  • Species Tulip, Daystemon

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Daystemon Species Tulips come from the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. Each is an original. The flowers are unique and dazzlingly colored. good for forcing and make excellent cut flowers. Plant 6-8” deep and 6” apart.

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  • Species Tulip, Kolpakowskiana

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Kolpakowskiana Circa 1877. This small beauty has yellow flowers streaked with carmine. Good naturalizer. HZ: 3-8 8” Mid-season

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  • Species Tulip, Linifolia

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Linifolia " Circa 1884: A beautiful scarlet flower with black base. The foliage has red edges. Good naturalizer. HZ: 4-8 6” Late-season"

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  • Species Tulip, Saxatilis

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Saxatilis "Circa 1825. Requires a warm area of the garden. The blossoms are rose to lilac with yellow bases. Good naturalizer. HZ: 5-10 6” "

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  • Species Tulip, Sylvestris

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Sylvestris "Circa 16th century. AKA The Florentine Tulip or The Woodland Tulip, popularized by Thomas Jefferson in his Monticello garden. Blossoms are sweetly fragrant with sunshine yellow, elliptical petals that open distinctively green, fade to chartreuse and mature to yellow. A good naturalizer. HZ: 5-8 8”-12” "

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  • Species Tulip, clusiana var. chrysantha

    Jun 27, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, clusiana var. chrysantha T. clusiana var. chrysantha is the oldest modern day cultivar of the Clusiana group. It was introduced in 1928. This naturalizing tetraploid has exterior petals which are rosy red to scarlet and edged with sunshine yellow. The interior of each petal is sunshine yellow. Each day when the blossoms open fully a cluster of these bulbs will form a solid carpet of buttercup yellow. Few tulips present the drama in the garden like this Clusiana does. The plants bloom early to mid-season and show best when planted in drifts of 10-25 bulbs. HZ: 4-8 6-8” Early-Midseason

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  • Species Tulip, Humilis Alba Coerulea Oculata

    Jun 26, 2017

    SPECIES TULIP, Humilis Alba Coerulea Oculata A stunning tulip. Tiny in height – huge in garden presence. Glistening white petals surround a vivid blue base. HZ: 3-8 5” Early April

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  • Four of the Rarest and Most Unusual Spring Flowering Bulbs

    Oct 20, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    Leucojum Aestivum Four of the Rarest and Most Unusual Spring Flowering Bulbs ALL OF THE BULBS VARIETIES DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/flower-bulbs-tubers/bulbs-for-fall-planting/ FOR SPECIFIC FLOWER BULBS, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE “BUY NOW” BUTTON LOCATED ON EACH PHOTO AND THAT BUTTON WILL TAKE YOU TO THE WEBPAGE WHICH DISCUSSES THAT BULB Some of you are collectors. Your gardens are filled with one of a kind specimen bulbs and other unforgettable spring garden plants. The four we discuss today are among the rarest spring flowering bulbs we have ever seen. Leucojum Aestivum You probably have never seen a Leucojum. They look exactly like a giant snowdrop and are best planted in clusters of at least 5 bulbs. Leucojum, AKA The Summer Snowflake, are closely related to Galanthus, The Snowdrop. Both have nodding

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