A sowing seeds of Tulipa tarda Stapf.

Tulipa tarda is native to the rocky subalpine meadows of Central Asia (steppes of Eastern Turkestan, other sources state that it is an endemic species of Kazakhstan). Bulbs of this species have a thin yellow skin, the leaves are narrow, in a rosette of three to seven grow from underground parts of the stems. The petals are yellow with white tips, outside on a green background purple colored. Several flowers appear on branching stems. Tulipa tarda flowers in the second half of April and early May. The species grows to a height of 15 cm.

The sowing of seeds is as easy as the cultivation of the tulip. Last year I sowed seeds in early autumn into the soil, scattered several hundred seeds on a half a square meter of land, and slightly earthed them up, and everything else I have left to nature. Although this was a long winter, the seeds germinated in large numbers during March, at the same time as the bulbs of the adult plants started to shoot. Surprisingly, the seedlings coped with the weather in April when the soil froze up at night and during the day due to increasing temperatures above zero again thawed, which lasted if I remember about 14 days to three weeks. When the weather got better a little bit, the "lawn" of sprouted seeds became thicker and wilted at the end of May.
Now I have gathered this year´s seed crop and I have put it up for sale: http://www.sedmdesatosmicka.cz/nabidka-rostlin/semena-seeds/