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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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A rose-pink classically shaped tulip, the Pink Impression is suitable for creating a cottage garden effect and looks great planted in amongst other plants as part of a border.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
A multi-purpose variety suitable for either pots or borders, the stunning orange-yellow petals of this smaller tulip are a delight.
- Category: Misce
- Height: 25cm
- Bulb Size: 10/11cm
- Blooms: April
An almost orange tulip with a flair of deep purple/ brown, Princess Irene tulips are definitely unique. An early flowering tulip these are great fr planting amongst daffodils to gain a contrast of colour.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 35cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: mid April
Brilliantly classic clear white tulips having a lovely soft green brushstroke of colour on the outer petals. This ivory tulip can be spotted in formal garden displays, parks and is perfect for adding into themed cottage garden designs.
- Category: Fosteriana
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Purple-tipped petals that literally look like they are dancing in the wind, this great new addition is much welcomed in any garden.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Deep purple petals opening up like stars these sun flowering tulips will be a worthy addition to beds and borders. Being slightly taller than most tulips, they would be better placed towards the middle or back of borders.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
This early flowering variety is a bright and cheerful addition to any garden or landscaped area. Its vivid pink petals will bring added much-welcomed colour.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 35cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A late flowering variety, the Queen of Night tulip is stunning. With deep maroon petals, the tulip is a firm favourite amongst avid gardeners for bringing height and bold colour into planted borders.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 10/12cm
- Blooms: early May
The vibrant sunset petals of this double late variety are accentuated by the deep green outer petals. Perfect for cutting, pots and borders.
- Category: Double
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
This large, double flowering bloom is suited for pots and containers or providing a splash of colour in borders with its deep crimson red petals. Lucious enveloping petals create a luxurious addition to your borders.
- Category: Double
- Height: 30cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Scarlet red cupped tulip, flowering mid-April it is perfect for adding height and intense colour to your borders and beds. Suitable for use as cut flowers.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
The rewarding Red Riding Hood tulips are reliable and will always create a strong display. Having scarlet red flowers and variegated foliage they are suited for rockeries or containers and pots.
- Category: Dwarf Rockery
- Height (cm): 25cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: March/ April
With distinctive blooms, the Rococo tulip has frilled petals with lovely green and red markings. A later flowering tulip, planted amongst other spring bulbs this will add continued colour to pots and borders for the late spring months.
- Category: Exotic
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
A deep beetroot purple, the large cupped petals of the Ronaldo tulip make this a great addition in a planting scheme with other bold coloured tulips, alliums and muscari.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Popular with avid gardeners and landscapers, this two-toned tulip appearing in late spring is such a delight. The beautiful cupped white petals are rippled with soft red stripes on the edges.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Wonderfully feathered petals, the ivory white petals are striped with green flashes. A real gem to add contrast and interest in borders
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
A star shape bloom, the Tarda tulip opens to reveal vivid buttercup yellow blooms with white tips. A definite eye-catcher, these dainty little tulip is perfect fro framing borders, or in pots where it can be enjoyed.
- Category: Dwarf Exotic
- Height (cm): 12cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 8+cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Starting off with pointed petals swirled with red and yellow tones. These open with maturity to reveal a crisp white centre with a ruby-red core.
- Category: Dwarf Rockery
- Height: 20cm
- Bulb size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: March/April
A striking tulip, embellishing your garden with a combination of rich rose and soft pinks with primrose yellow base petals the Tom Pouce tulip is easily distinguished. Suitable for cut flowers, they can brighten rooms in your house along with your garden
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Classic tulip fluted variety, the ivory blooms of the White Dream are pleasant and timeless flowers. These look stunning planted next to bolder coloured tulips or as part of a cottage garden theme.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: late April
An elegant, pure white tulip, which petals open up to soft stars. The tall flowering White Triumphator will open mid-May and delight its visitors and onlookers.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: mid May
Ruffled edge, peony-shaped blooms, these bright sunshine yellow flowers are a great addition to add that boost of much-needed early colour. Suitable for use in displays, containers, or for filling out beds and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Making bulb planting easier, quicker and cleaner, our bulb planter is the ideal tool for helping you plant your spring-flowering bulbs.
- Made of high quality steel
- Automatic release on handle
- Duroplast coating - impact, elastic, abrasion, and corrosion - resistant
- Depth Scale
Our flowering bulb fertiliser has been specifically designed to help your spring-flowering bulbs flower to their full potential. Whether you are establishing in pots or containers, sprinkle a small amount into each hole prior to planting your bulbs. Also suitable for use in early spring to encourage your bulbs to flower well in the following season.
- Tailored to give your bulbs all the nutrients they need
- Can be mixed with compost or Bulb Fibre
- NPK - 12.11.18 + MgO
- Recommended coverage: 5kg per 200sqm. Apply at 25g/sqm
- Not suitable for use with Wildflower Bulbs
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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