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Something for everyone! Whether you are after something tall, short, double blooms, or single later flowering, our tulip range is second to none. From cut flower varieties such as the bold Ballerina Tulip Bulbs to our striking ruffled petalled Estella Rijnveld Tulips we have something for everyone. Can't find what you are looking for? Give us a call and we will be happy to help.
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Deep mauve red outer petals framed with rich yellow-edged petals, this unique and stunning tulip variety is great for adding interest and multiple colours into beds and borders mid-spring.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: late April
A dwarf tulip variety, these early flowering tulips are ideal for rockeries and edges of borders, to add an early pop of colour in the spring. Opening up to bright yellow and red blooms they are a little delight.
- Category: Dwarf Rockery
- Height (cm): 20cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12+cm
- Blooms: March/ April
A golden yellow, classically shaped tulip, the Golden Apeldoorn is a standard and well-favoured variety amongst landscapers and garden designers.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
Once fully mature, these large blooms open up to reveal their true unique beauty. Rippled petals with pink frilled edges and a distinctive green stripe down the centre.
- Category: Parrot
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Painted petals in shades of rose pink, cream and soft green this stunning tulip is a great addition to any garden design. Appearing mid-spring the soft coloured tulip is great for adding into a pastel or cottage garden scheme.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
Brilliant white large bowl-shaped blooms, these flowers look stunning planted in clusters or add elegance into existing beds and borders. A great tulip for use as cut flowers.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Wonderfully fringed crisp white flower heads, these stunning and unique tulips are a delight to behold. Their unique frilled petals make these great to add to landscaped areas and pots in particular.
- Category: Fringed
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
A cone-shaped flower head, starting off with a purple, tinged green base, opening to reveal multiple pure white petals. True to its name, the shape and way this tulip opens really look like an Ice Cream.
- Category: Double Late
- Height (cm): 25cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 11/12cm
- Blooms: May/ June
With red, sumptuous blooms the Ile de France are an outstanding performer and come into their own as planted as part of a colour scheme to add a real pop of colour. Suitable for landscaping, beds and borders.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
An early flowering deep crimson-coloured bloom sitting proudly on darkly stained stems. This dramatic coloured Triumph Tulip is perfect to plant in mass in borders or pots.
- Category: Triumph
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 11/12cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Perfect for pots and the front of borders, the dwarf tulip Johann Strauss has proved a popular variety over the years. Its unique shape and ivory white flowers with bold flashes of red make it a mighty little bloom.
- Category: Dwarf Rockery
- Height (cm): 20cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: March/ April
From a yellow base the petals open to flame orange and red giving you a real show. A great deer-proof variety that is perfect for naturalising.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A tall, large cupped hybrid tulip portraying deep pink tones with hints of lilac. This bulb compliments the Daytona Tulip perfectly in gardens and borders.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Vivid red with pale yellow edges that then go on to mature to a pure brilliant white, this unique tulip was named after a famous Dutch bulb breeder.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Creating an explosion of colour this dwarf botanical tulip type is an ever-popular and resilient variety that is ideal for adding into rockeries, pots and edging borders.
- Category: Dwarf Exotic
- Height (cm): 25cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 5+cm
- Blooms: April/May
Lovely pointed white petals brushed with artistic pink flushes. Perfect for adding longevity to borders these later-flowering tulips are great for adding height and flair to established borders.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height: 55cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Adding structure to borders and beds, this tall tulip variety has a classic shape with pure snow-white blooms. Ideal for planting as part of a colour scheme.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 70cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
These tall fluted petals are wonderfully coloured in a deep violet shade whilst standing proud on elegant flower stems. Once established the petals will open up and almost bend back on themselves.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
Peony shaped blooms of large ivory white blooms that are up to 10cm across, these a real showstopper and add impact to pots and borders. Value for money these blooms will not disappoint.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
With its beautiful double blooms opening in early April, the almost peony shaped flowers of the Monsella bring a welcome ray of sunshine. Their vibrant yellow and red petals create impact and form in pots and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Beetroot purple blooms that almost have a varnish finish on the petals, make this tulip stand out and glisten in the spring sunshine. A great addition to add into borders or plant in bulk for maximum impact.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Ballon blooms of vivid orange, these magnificent flowers are perfect for adding that 'something different' you have been looking for into your beds and borders.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A deep maroon/ purple blooming tulip with a long flowering period. Preferring full sun or partial shade will naturalise over time.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
These intense scarlet red blooms open up to almost crown-like blooms. The lily flowering tulip is a lovely addition to add as a focal point in beds or planted in pots for impact.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Tips for Tulips: Dwarf/Lily Varieties
Upright cups in a wide range of colours and shapes, bringing joy to any garden in the middle of spring- today we’re talking about tulips!
As their name suggests, Dwarf tulips are bred for their short stems, usually growing no higher than 25cm, but bloom no less vibrantly than any other tulip. Meanwhile, Lily-Flowering tulips are the plant with the greatest visual difference from other tulips- again, their name best describes their elegant shape.
Did You Know…?
Both Dwarf tulips and Lily tulips make excellent cut flowers. Tulips make for excellent cut flowers in general, as they’re hardy enough to continue growing in a vase for a little while, even after they’re cut!
How Best to Grow
The best choice for tulips in most situations is to plant them (at least 10cm deep) in rows or clusters of 10-15, in a sunny spot with humus-rich, free-draining soil. Best planted in the late autumn months. Lily-flowering tulips, though tall, are not highly wind-resistance, so it’s important to plant them in a place protected by the wind.
Our Picks
Dwarf tulips’ short height makes them an ideal pick for patio pots and similar containers. Alternatively, they’re a good height to place at the front of a border, scatter through a rockery, or outline a shrub!
- ‘Red Riding Hood’ is one of my personal favourite varieties: with simple-yet-gorgeous, variegated crimson petals and burgundy-striped foliage, it’s all the better to decorate your garden with, my dear!
- ‘Little Beauty’ is unusual in its shape, being more of a wide-open flower than a traditional cup-shaped tulip. Its outer petals are a lovely magenta-rose colour, with a beautiful blue centre.
Lily-flowering tulips are somewhat later bloomers and have taller, slender stems (around 50cm-70cm tall), and their gorgeous shape and a wide variety of colours make them popular as cut flowers or as part of a bouquet. Alternatively, place them as the centrepiece of a tall container.
- The stunning ‘Marilyn’ bears white and red petals that almost look like they have been painted- combined with its name, it’s hard not to think of it as an elegant lady with an amazing new frock!
- And for an effective single colour, ‘Merlot’ produces waxy, wine-red goblets which make a strong statement on their own, or alongside another coloured tulip. Cheers!
Tips for Tulips: Darwin/Triumph Varieties
Upright cups in a wide range of colours and shapes, bringing joy to any garden in the middle of spring- today we’re talking about tulips!
Darwin tulips are perhaps best noted for their large flower size and vibrant colouration. When crossbred with Single Early cultivars, you get Triumph Tulips: as their name suggests, they’re one of the best tulip varieties in terms of having a perfect balance of beauty and practicality, with an enormous range of colourations, many of which boast a neat and sophisticated air that make a bold statement in the garden!
Did You Know…?
Tulips have always been a highly popular plant. In fact, the popularity of tulips may have been responsible for the first-ever asset bubble: ‘tulip mania’ occurred in the early 1600s in the Dutch Republic, where the prices of tulips skyrocketed based on their popularity (at its height, the price of a tulip was estimated to be ten times that of highly-performing workers’ annual income!) before it abruptly crashed down in 1637.
How Best to Grow
Both types of tulip are to be grown in autumn and in similar conditions: rich, well-drained soil in full sunlight. Triumph tulips are the best flowers for forcing, whereas Darwin tulips are better for naturalising for a relatively long lifespan in your garden. Either variety makes for a delightful display in beds, borders and containers, and has the best visual impact in large groups.
Our Picks
Darwin hybrid tulips, as mentioned before, are especially large-flowering and tall, sturdy and long-lasting.
- ‘Daydream’ is a sunshine-y variation, with its younger petals blooming in a lemon yellow, but ageing beautifully into a warm, glowing orange!
- ‘Pink Impression’ bares blushing pink petals with a soft feathering of different shades. Its foliage has its own appeal too, with variegated leaves lined with gold.
- ‘Apeldoorn Elite’ burns bright with gold flowers streaked with ruby red.
- ‘Beauty of Apeldoorn’ has a striking scarlet-orange colouration, but is just as noteworthy due to its taller-than-average size and bold, lance-shaped foliage.
There are enough gorgeous cultivars of Triumph tulips to fill a garden all of their own! However, if you had to hear some potential picks for your garden, we’d recommend:
- ‘Jan Reus’, a great deep crimson bloom, that sits proudly on darkly stained stems. A dramatic and deep tulip for creating drama and depth
- ‘Cairo’ tulips are a burnt orange in colour, but their waxy sheen provides an unusual accent; in some lights, this flower can appear to have an almost metallic, brassy appearance
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