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What is this tulip doing? I'm waiting for it to yellow so I can pull the leaves up, but I haven't seen this before.

Here's another view of the tulip.

can't see your pics...

that's weird. they came up fine when i look at post. What am i doing wrong?

OK I don't know what happened. The pics are on my flickr. Link in my signature below.

Hi buzylady,

I have no idea about your tulip but what kind of clematis is in your web album? It is beautiful!

Joanne

Joanne
Thanks
I believe it is a Jack Manti. That's what I was told.
Diane

I looked up the jack mani. It doesn't really look like it. I don't know what it is. But it really is blue. Oh well.
Diane

Thanks for checking into it Diane. I love the blue ones as well. Maybe someone will come along and identify it?

Joanne

Looks like a seed pod to me. Let it dry and then harvest the seeds. I have never done this before but was just told that with daffodils that growing from seeds takes a few years to get flowers. Hopefully someone lese will come along that has actually done this and can give you good advice.

looks like the tulip is forming a seed pod? or maybe it's going to bloom again?

the clematis is mrs. cholmondeley

I thought it looked like a seed pod. Didn't know tulips went to seed.

Thanks for the clematis info. That looks more like it.

Hi Diane..
can u save da tulip seeds for me??? Pleeease... letz see whether it will ever germinate in da warm soil of Malaysia... saw some flowering tulip plants in a Landscape exhibition in Kuala Lumpur once..quite sometime ago... but was too afraid to buy 'em..they were of course very, very expensive!!!
norhaini

sure norhaini. If you want some tulips, I could send a few bulbs that are easy to grow.
Diane

that is the tulip seed pod

most folks clip that off early after the bloom, so that the energy is saved in the bulb to use in flowering next spring rather than producing seeds