Unknown bulb - Please help identify

[keepitgreen]

Someone recently gave me some large pots they didn't want anymore, before I tipped the soil out some bulbs (I think) started to grow. I thought they were Tulips to begin with but now I am not sure.

Can any of you help.

Thanks

[veggiechicken]

Dwarf tulips, I suggest!

[Two_Sheds]

definitely tulips. Turkish ones, at a guess

The name is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't get it: you might find your one listed here (scroll to bottom of page & click on links)

[rustylady]

Definitely tulips.

[keepitgreen]

I thought it was a Tulip but then I thought it was too small - So, Dwarf makes sense!!

Thanks for the confirmation! I am going to try and propogate some daffodil bulb in the summer so i might have to have a go with these tulip bulbs as well!!

[rustylady]

They are easy, they multiply themselves. Just keep them fed when the flowers have faded.

[Two_Sheds]

Tulipa tarda, that's what I was thinking of

[shushkin!]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]27780[/ATTACH]Someone recently gave me some large pots they didn't want anymore, before I tipped the soil out some bulbs (I think) started to grow. I thought they were Tulips to begin with but now I am not sure.

Can any of you help.

Thanks

Definitely tulipa kaufmanniana - water lily tulip
Tulipa kaufmanniana, native of Turkey, used to be (by a long shot) the first of our species tulips to bloom, starting as slender candlestick buds at February's end, & unfolding into full bloom by the first week in March, hence a winter bloomer even though usually categorized as early spring. In 2004 however, the Violet Crocus Tulip (T. humilis violacea) bloomed a week sooner than our wild Kaufmanniana, then in 2005 with many more kaufmannianas in the garden, three cultivars bloomed simultaneous with the wild ones.

[Two_Sheds]

Definitely tulipa kaufmanniana ...native of Turkey

Thank you! I did have a little bit of sense in my addled brain there