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Author Message   Gtokitty  My Weather My Time Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:58 pm EST :    Hey everyone, For the last two years, I've had some beautiful yellow tulips. Well this year when my tulips came up they were anything but yellow. What exactly happened there? I have no other tulips on my property and neither does any of my neighbours. I ended up with some purple tulips with yellow centers and the others are pinkish white color. I know about the bee and how he brings stuff from one flower to the next, but why exactly does this happen and will my flowers ever turn yellow again? Gtokitty - Ontario, Zone "6a"   Gtokitty  My Weather My Time Posted on Friday, May 02, 2008 - 10:29 pm EST :    Guess no one knows if they will change back or not :( Here is what color some are now, well in a perspective I like to take pictures from. Always a different one when I can get a good one :) Gtokitty - Ontario, Zone "6a"   Gardenfiend  Supporting Member My Weather My Garden Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 01:27 am EST :    I can offer no explanation for the phenomenon which I've never seen in my own garden. Although I have many different tulips, they always return the same colour as they started out (provided voles allow them to return at all...) Tulips generally multiply in gardens through their bulbs, not by seed. Even if they have set seed and it germinates, it would take a couple of years before you would see flowers. So the flowers you saw a year later can only have come from new bulbs produced from the original plant. Maybe someone with knowledge of botanical genetics can hazard an explanation. I'm mystified. Gardenfiend - Germany, Zone "7a"   Gtokitty  My Weather My Time Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 05:38 pm EST :    OK I looked at my tulips again today and there are only 3 yellow ones left. All the rest are red and a few purple. I will post pictures of the piece of garden they are in. Gtokitty - Ontario, Zone "6a"   Valia  Supporting Member Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 07:06 pm EST :    I don't know about tulips, but I've been told by a knowledgeable gardener that this happens with gladiolus because of a virus. Valia - UT (winter) WA (summer), Zone "8 and 5"   Gtokitty  My Weather My Time Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 09:53 pm EST :    here is what I'm left with :) Some odd colors.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/ChamZilla80/stuff%20from%20around/ph otos009.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/ChamZilla80/stuff%20from%20around/ph otos008.jpg Gtokitty - Ontario, Zone "6a"   Loretta  Supporting Member Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 07:57 pm EST :    Maybe you have a garden fairy? I remember reading posts by another gardener who use to play a game with some friends and relatives where they would sneak plants into each other's gardens as a surprise. Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"

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