Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips
by Norman Gabitzsch
Title
Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips
Artist
Norman Gabitzsch
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art
Description
The Volčji Potok Arboretum was opened to the public in 1952. It originally formed part of the Souvan family estate in 1885, which was taken over by the University of Ljubljana in 1952 and legally declared a place of cultural and natural heritage of national importance. Now independent of the university, it is the most visited botanical garden in Slovenia and in recent years has become well known for its spring flower shows. The arboretum is primarily a botanical garden for woody plants, the only one in Slovenia. The Kamnik Alps can bee seen in the background.
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridise and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted in sizes and replanted for sale in the future.
Photograph made with a Nikon D850 camera.
Copyright(c) 2019 Norman Gabitzsch. All Rights Reserved.
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May 2nd, 2019
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Comments (35)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit!
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #11 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Nancy Lee Moran
I am nominating "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips" for a Special Feature in the group "1000 Views."
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
James ... thank you for featuring the Annual Spring Slovenian Flower Landscape exhibition photog, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips", in the Fine Art America group, "1000 Views".
Carlo Fuentes
Very captivating! L F
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Carlo ... I want to thank you for the support of the Annual Spring Slovenian Flower Landscape exhibition photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Lingfai Leung
Great capture
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Lingfai ... Thanks for commenting on the Annual Spring Slovenian Flower Landscape exhibition photog, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Anna Serebryanik
Gorgeous view of the tulips and mountains!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Anna ... thank you for commenting of the Slovenia Photograph, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips",.
Lisa Bell
lovely landscape of tulips
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Lisa ... thanks for the comment on the Annual Spring Slovenian outdoors Floral Landscape exhibition photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Jim Love
Now this is what I call a grand composition...so vibrant
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Jim ... what a wonderful comment for the Annual Spring Slovenian outdoors Floral Landscape exhibition photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Joan Stratton
Lovely :)
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Joan ... thank you so much for your comment on the Annual Spring Slovenian outdoors Floral Landscape exhibition photographic image, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Lynn Bauer
Gorgeous!!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Lynn ... I want to thank you for looking at the Annual Spring Slovenian outdoors Floral Landscape exhibition image, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Norma Brandsberg
Gorgeous!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Norma ... thank you for visiting the Annual Spring Slovenia outdoor Flower exhibition photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Linda Brody
lovely
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Linda ... thank you so much for your response to the Annual Spring Slovenian Flower Landscape exhibition photog, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Marlin and Laura Hum
Gorgeous scenery, Norman!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Marlin and Laura ... thanks for your response to the Annual Spring Slovenian Floral Landscape exhibition photograph, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Chance Kafka
wonderful landscape and composition!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Chance ... thanks for your analysis of the Annual Springtime Slovenia Floral Landscape photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Elias Pentikis
Oh my, so beautiful image!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Elias ... thank you so very much for visiting the beautiful Spring Slovenia Floral Landscape photograph, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Robert VanDerWal
Well Seen & Captured!!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Robert ... thanks for commenting on the Springtime Slovenian Floral Landscape image, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Belinda Greb
Stunning!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Belinda ... thank you for visiting the Spring Slovenia Flower Landscape picture perfect, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Judy Vincent
Beautiful scene and capture!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Judy ... I want to thank you for commenting on the Spring Slovenia Floral Landscape photographic photo, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
John Trommer
Great image.
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
John ... thanks for responding to the Spring Slovenia Flower Landscape photog "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".
Jeremy Guerin
Vibrant!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Jeremy ... thanks for visiting the Springtime Slovenia Floral Landscape image, "Ljubljana Arboretum Tulips".