Tulips Reaching for Heaven
by Norman Gabitzsch
Title
Tulips Reaching for Heaven
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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May 2nd, 2019
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Comments (4)
Johanna Hurmerinta
Congratulations. You are featured in BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS GROUP. Welcome to archive your photo and if you want, participate in the group promos. Greetings, Johanna
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Johanna ... thank you for featuring the Slovenia Spring time floral photo, "Tulips Reaching for Heaven", in the Fine Art America group, "Beautiful Flowers Group".
Keith Smith
Beautiful perspective and color on these tulips! like/fav/tweet
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Keith ... thank you so much for the comment and support of the Slovenia Springtime floral photog, "Tulips Reaching for Heaven".
Jurgen Lorenzen
Great POV and colors, Norman!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Jurgen ... thank you for the comment on the Slovenia Spring time floral photo, "Tulips Reaching for Heaven".
Heidi Fickinger
This series is very beautiful Norman. Aloha
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Heidi ... thank you so very much for your comment on the Slovenia Springtime floral photograph, "Tulips Reaching for Heaven".
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