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It's fabulous.

Gorgeous colour :)

Wow, this is lovely, Sheelah!

It is called 'Gladiolus Calianthus' Sheelagh. I have some planted but they have not flowered as yet.

These look great together.

This is a fantastic color.

Beautiful

beautiful colours sheelagh

Your Grannys Bonnets are all Fantastic Colours :)

I Totaly Agree Sheelagh Absolutely Beautful coloured flowers :D

We have a woodmouse called "Alison" and we see her in all kinds of amazing places - but we hadn't realised she had gone to your garden too.

We have one called Cynthis which looks like Sheelaghs.

Mine are certainly red, I have just taken snaps of them and posted them on GoY. We have nicknamed them the 'Blam' tulips As you can see from the photos (on my homepage) they are well past their best now, but mine grow about 8/10" in height and close when the sun goes down too until they begin to fade. I believe you may be right Bonkers about them being Kauffmann tulips, I may have bought them when I discovered and fell for the Lily-flower tulips.

What a cheeky little thing

Wow, what a eye catching color combination !

Maybe you could plant marigolds nearby to attract them away from the honeysuckle

Xela s are red arent they?

No, not Fusilier, those are red - I've got them in my garden! I think they are T. turkestanica.

Wow that's amazing. We had a rose like this when I was a child.

Think these are Lily flower tulips , looks like Kauffmann Tulips.
Xela your variety may be 'fusilier'. These grow 6-10" if smaller then theres an array of dwarf tulips they may be.

Can you pop another photo on, maybe one showing the front of the flower? It does look very much like an open tuplip. I had no luck searching through orchids, but I know I've seen something recently like this. I'll keep searching...

I have heard you can get a kind of 'wild' orchid. I wonder if they are Wild Orchids? I'll look them up...

Thwy are tulips, that is for sure.

Oooh, Sheelagh, I have the same problem. Planted them in my best mate's garden two years ago and they have put on a fantastic display each Spring. In our case they are a brilliant red with yellow & black centres. The shape is exactly the same as yours so they have to be related. Fingers crossed someone can identify them :-)