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Established by Dutch immigrants Cees and Johanna Tesselaar in 1939 the farm originally grew a selection of tulips, gladioli and daffodils. It has become one of the most iconic tourist attractions in Victoria where more than 120 varieties of tulips are shown on a 55 acre farm. The Tesselaar Tulip Festival is held in Silvan every spring since 1954. The beautiful variegated tulips in this collage, with their striking striped petals, were photographed at the 2019 Tesselaar Tulip Festival.
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This week the theme, “patterns in nature” was chosen by Cheryl, Cheryl - Vickypoint. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week. This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. These days, modern variegated tulips are the result of deliberate hybridization where genetic manipulation replaced the role of the virus. Unfortunately, infected plants were also smaller and more sickly looking. Infecting budding plants with Tulip Breaking Virus used to be the traditional way of creating variegated tulips. Known as Tulip Breaking Virus this family of viruses causes the colour to be broken into stripes in the leaves of the flower itself. Traditionally, variegated tulips were the result of a virus infecting the plant. There are records of variegated tulips going back to the 17th Century. Tulips come in a variety of colors but how about patterns? Why stick to a solid colour – as beautiful as it may be – when you can have stripes or more correctly variegations of different shades adorning your blooms?