{"id":9863,"date":"2012-03-17T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2012-05-03T23:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:06:34","slug":"botanic-species-and-small-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/botanic-species-and-small-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanic, Species and Small Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7136652563\/\" title=\"Botanic Tulip by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7093\/7136652563_c078e92d54.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tulip\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1592 Charles de l&#8217;Ecluse planted the first tulips in the sandy Dutch soil, where an enormous bulb industry now produces more than 2 billion tulips a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4628663149\/\" title=\"botanic tulips by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4038\/4628663149_8ac6291cdd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"botanic tulips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 100+ species of Tulip most of which are small, delicate and usually less than 8 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4621968201\/\" title=\"Tulip by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4621968201_e576cede2e.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Tulip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 15 divisions or classes of tulips plus a section for multiflowered tulips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/comunicati\/3501936915\/\" title=\"Tulips by Com\u00c3\u00b9nicaTI, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3320\/3501936915_f413895b2b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tulips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small flowered botanical or species types such as Tulipa tarda, Tulipa batalini, Tulipa marjoletti and Tulipa acuminata should be planted in autumn before other tulips. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xerones\/441868707\/\" title=\"Tulips by Xerones, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/195\/441868707_c7181c4f1b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Tulips\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSpecies Tulip are also sometimes called Botanical Tulips. Most are small. Some are tiny. Many, given the right conditions, will spread like wildfire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459627634\/\" title=\"Tulip species by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4459627634_ae6746c5d8.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tulip species\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em><br \/>\nTulips by Com\u00c3\u00b9nicaTI, on Flickr<br \/>\nTulips by Xerones, on Flickr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6990574120\/\" title=\"Botanic Tulip by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8167\/6990574120_9b34e1e3f5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tulip\"><\/a><br \/>\nTulipa batalinii  &#8216;Red Gem&#8217; growing under the castle wall at Clitheroe Lancashire <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small selection of small tulips for small gardens&#8230;. and big castles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}