RE: Today's Principle.........presented by Bleujay
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A parrot tulip..I had planted some in the garden of my old house in Germany...seeing it on your painting made me miss them anyhow.
I wonder if they're still alive, or already rooted out by the new owner of the house to make a place for their own preference 😊.
You created a good art piece there.
I like it.
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Greetings @kobold-djawa ,
How very kind of you to drop by...with your splendid comment.
Oh, you had them in your Garden....Lovely! Did your Parrot Tulips come up year after year? I have not had much success in that regard.
Happy to hear your complimentary words regarding the painting...thank you.
Kindest Regards to you and yours,
Bleujay
I had few kinds of them (different colour combination, very pretty. I had the one with bright yellow, green and red.
Also had one mixed of green and white. I think the one similar like in this picture was also there.
Yes, they were blooming every year.
If you want your flowers of this kind (tulips, daffodils, iris and all of other bulbs) to bloom each season... You need to cut the flower stem as soon as the flower wilted before it starts building the seed capsule.
The plant should concentrate on collecting nutrients and preserve them to save enough energy for the blooming season next year instead of growing seeds.
The genes would choose the "sexual" procreation by nature than the vegetative propagation, unless we manipulate the process by cutting their opportunity LOL.
Cutting the flower stem is exactly the contraceptive measure that we "should" do to prevent them doing those "natural procreation method" 😜😝🤭, if we want to have flowers each year.
There's no need to worry that the plants won't make any "children", cos they are still able to clone new "kids" by budding/dividing the bulbs ☺️. It's even faster anyway to propagate that way than growing them from seeds.
Oh thank you @kobold-djawa for this information, very timely as well.
Appreciate your lovely helpful comment...I will see what I can do.
Cheers, Bleujay