Tulips in Slovenia
by Norman Gabitzsch
Title
Tulips in Slovenia
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.
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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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.
Amy Dundon
Lovely!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Amy ... thank you for visiting the beautiful spring Travel floral photograph, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Leif Sohlman
Beautiful light and colours on Tulips In Slovenia Norman
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Leif ... Thank you for visiting and commenting on the Slovenia Travel floral photo "Tulips in Slovenia".
Allen Beatty
Gorgeous !!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Allen ... thanks for the comment on the Slovenian Travel flower photog, "Tulips in Slovenia".
David Hinds
Beautiful!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
David ... thank you for responding to the Slovenian Travel floral photographic image, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Luther Fine Art
Luther Fine Art 2 Days AgoCongratulations! 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.
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Pamela ... thank you for the feature of the Slovenia Travel floral image, "Tulips in Slovenia", in the Fine Art america group, "Camera Art".
Keith Smith
Great color!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Thank you, Keith, for you comment on the Slovenia Travel flower photog, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Cindy Treger
Norman, congrats on your stunning Special Featured Artist of the Week in VOS-GOS. f/l
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Cindy ... thank you for supporting and visiting the Slovenia Travel floral photographic image, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Donna Kennedy
Beautiful color and light, Congratulations on your Feature of the Week in Visions of Spring-Glances of Summer!...L
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Donna ... thank y for the support of the Slovenia Travel floral photographic picture, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Dora Sofia Caputo Photographic Design and Fine Art
Congratulations, Norman! Your stunning capture of beautiful Tulips in Slovenia is being featured in the Special Featured Artists of the Week Section of the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer Homepage. Thank you for sharing this fine piece with our Group. F/L
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Dora ... thank you for the special feature of the Slovenia Travel floral photographic image, "Tulips in Slovenia", in the Fine Art america group, "Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer".
Mary Ann Weger
Congratulations! Your impressive, high resolution artwork has been featured on the Home Page of the “FAA- Pixels All Stars” group! We invite you to copy and paste your extraordinary image for permanent storage at: https://pixels.com/groups/f-a-a--pixels-all-stars--2-submissions-per-week-maximum.html?showmessage=true&messageid=4707957
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Mary Ann .... Thank you for featuring the Slovenian Travel photog, "Tulips in Slovenia", in the Fine Art america group, "FAA - Pixels All Stars".
Diann Fisher
So beautiful! Love the POV (lf)
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Diann ... thank you for the comment and support of the Slovenian Travel photographic image, "Tulips in Slovenia".
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured in the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. 5/14/19
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Lyric ... thank you for featuring the Slovenian Travel picture, "Tulips in Slovenia", in the Fine Art America Group, "Bedroom Art Gallery".
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