Description
One of the rarest of our tulips this is the largest and most flamboyant of the wild species, with massive flowers.
The original stock from which this is grown was collected by Dr. Boris Fedtschenko in the Kopet Dag of Turkmenistan, in 1910. It found its way to Holland and there it was named for the brothers T.H. Hoog and J.M.C Hoog, then of the van Tubergen company. The bulbs offered here are direct and attributable descendants of that stock, received by us directly from the Hoog family who preserved it in cultivation.
Huge orange-scarlet flowers, with a black base surrounded by a yellow margin. The outer segments are marked with a touch of green and reflex slightly with age. Importantly, the segments hardly overlap and they accord perfectly with correct and proper Tulipa hoogiana.
An article in the International Rock gardener for 2022 assigns Tulipa hoogiana of horticulture to T. persica. This is partially incorrect – not all T.hoogiana (hort) is T. persica. The mis-naming may be true for the more widely available commercial stocks offered elsewhere, which have been raised from what were initially wrongly named plants, (traceable to Limmen in the Netherlands) but our own, stock, with a provenance direct to the first introduction, is not that more widely available commercial form, it is not persica and it is both distinct and true-to-name. The two names of persica and hoogiana are both valid, distinct and they are not the same plant – they are most certainly not synonyms.
Well drained spot with a dry summer rest.
