Parrot tulips

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About Parrot tulips

Parrot tulips are so named for their unusually bright flowers. They appeal to artists and free spirits who worship individuality and nuance. Highbrow designers gravitate toward their bizarre shapes and colors as the most trendy moderns, whether as cut flowers or in gardens.

Parrots appear serendipitously when the genetic material in tulip plants goes haywire during cell division.
In Holland, where tulip breeding has been raised to both high art and space-age science, growers are always on the lookout for mutants, which often result in a new parrot-tulip variety.



Parrots can produce petals with feathered edges in various textures and densities. The petals may curl in odd directions, twist or wave. The colors may exhibit flame variations for multiple hues. With the spare modern decorating style so popular today, the wildness of the parrot tulip provides the perfect foil to its rigid lines and pure fields. It dares to be different, to wear its satins and sequins even when accomplishing the most pedestrian task.

This is courtesy of an article by Maureen Gilmer
www.diynetwork.com/diy/gr_flowers/article/0,2029,DIY_1384...

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