Species tulips and why you should grow them with Josie Lewis - Episode 220

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Sarah Raven

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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There's been some exciting breeding and hybridising using species tulips - those closely related to wild tulips - in recent years, which has made them perfect plants for withstanding tulip fire. Species tulips are a newfound favourite for Josie and Sarah at Perch Hill, and in this episode we’ll hear why they’re a must-have for pots in particular, and which incredible varieties have captured their attention. In this episode, discover: The remarkable resilience of species tulips to wetter sprin...

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0:46.5	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests.
0:56.3	And today I'm joined again by Josie Lewis, our head gardener at Perch Hill, who has done lots of podcasts with me over the years. And last year,
1:03.2	we did lots together because we did gardening jobs. But this year, she's been on less. But the thing that we're just absolutely bursting to talk about both of us is about species tulips, isn't it,
1:08.6	Josie? Yes, it is. yeah, a newfound favourite, really.
1:12.5	Newfound passion.
1:14.0	And I'm very rudely, didn't say welcome, so welcome, Josie first of all.
1:18.8	Thank you very much.
1:20.2	I always feel welcome here.
1:22.7	So, yeah, I think, just to give a little bit of background,
1:27.1	Josie and I go every spring to Holland
1:30.3	and lots of different gardens in the UK.
1:33.5	But last spring, last April, early April actually, we went to the Netherlands and visited
1:39.4	a tulip species breeder.
1:43.8	And species means, I think, I'm right in saying, Josie, that it's
1:48.1	what you would find in the wild. Yes, yeah. But increasingly, they've been used to create hybrids.
1:55.6	So their genetics are still closely related to the tulips you might find in the world, but actually they are cultivars now, aren't they?
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