Explain this, please

*twilight zone music playing*

Two thoughts:

1: Cross pollenation with someone elses tulips (can you imagine someone letting their tulips run around cross pollenating all over town.

2: Self-varigation. I understand temperature and environmental conditions will cause tulips to varigate themselves. (bit early for all this sex talk isn't it)

Richard

Shadow_Ferret said:

We moved into our home 3 summers ago.

3 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

2 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

1 summer ago we had yellow tupips on the side of the garage.

This year? They're white with purple etching.

WTF?

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NEENER, NEENER NEENER...YOU CAN'T CATCH ME!!!!!

revenge of the squirrels.
are squirrels and ferrets natural enemies?

Shadow_Ferret said:

We moved into our home 3 summers ago.

3 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

2 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

1 summer ago we had yellow tupips on the side of the garage.

This year? They're white with purple etching.

WTF?

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A mad garden gnome ran amok and replaced your yellow tulips with white and purple ones for spite

Yeah, it's cross-pollination, most likely. My neighbor's red roses turned my blue ones, dammit. (okay, they were really violet, but they're called Blue Girls and they were beyootiful)

I have to go with Self-variegation. I don't think bulbed plants can cross pollinate, but this is just my thought on the subject.

It means it's time to visit the eye doctor and get your eyes checked.

Changes in soil PH will result in color variations of several plants. Hydrangeas are a notorious example. Not sure about tulips. Just a thought.

I wonder if there is some kind of tulip variant that only comes up every 4-5 years.

I wonder, if the tulips aren't yellow, maybe the yellow migrated to somewhere else in the house or neighborhood.

"Honey, have you seen the neighbor's cat lately?"

Liam beat me to it... my mother's hydrangeas have changed. Of course, her roses have also joined forces - there used to be red and white, now they're all a pale pink.

It's a glitch in the Matrix.





Sorry about that.

It's something the Commies are doing.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/bulbs/faq/tulips.html#2

According to these folks, it's caused by a virus that probably came from the soil, from the bulbs being in the same place every year. I read something similar on an edu site, how they introduce a virus to the bulbs to create different colors, so it kinda makes sense.

Your tulips have herpes.

Shadow_Ferret said:

We moved into our home 3 summers ago.

3 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

2 summers ago we had yellow tulips on the side of the garage.

1 summer ago we had yellow tupips on the side of the garage.

This year? They're white with purple etching.

WTF?

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I believe if tulips have streaking in them it has a virus or disease... I plant tulips every year... and they never come up.

Siddow said:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/bulbs/faq/tulips.html#2

According to these folks, it's caused by a virus that probably came from the soil, from the bulbs being in the same place every year. I read something similar on an edu site, how they introduce a virus to the bulbs to create different colors, so it kinda makes sense.

Your tulips have herpes.

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Thanks Siddow ...

I know I read that somewhere but couldn't find it...

Bees pick up nasty ass pollen from under lamposts in bad neighborhoods and drop it into your pure boring yellows and VOILA! Floozy Tulips!

Nasty ass pollen... what's ass pollen??

Global purpling.

Shadow_Ferret said:

This year? They're white with purple etching.

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It's a message from God. See, you ask for them, and when they show up - you just say "WTF" and walk away.