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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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The only relative of the garden tulip found wild in Britain. It flowers in April with rich yellow blooms and the added bonus of a delicious scent. Great for helping to naturalise areas.
- This species grows to a height of 12"
- Bulb size: 6/7cm
- These are UK native bulbs
A carefully selected mixture of bold, bright and vibrant tulips will add an array of colour, height and shape to your borders and garden. A kaleidoscope of colour for filling your borders with stunning tulips!
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: late April
Beautifully deep scarlet tulip with yellow-edged petals. These magnificent tall tulips will add height to borders and are also suitable for cut flowers whilst also carrying a light fragrance.
- Category: Darwin
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Stunning voluptuous vivid pink petals form bowls of wonderful colour in early spring. Sure to bring joy and great presence to your beds and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
A multi-tonal darwin variety, starting off yellow at the base with sunset tones fading to a deep red at the tips of the petals creating a stunning contrast to its deep green leaves.
- Category: Darwin
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Another stunning variety, these cherry red petals are flushed with lovely yellow edges and a yellow base. Standing tall they are suitable for cut flowers and look fantastic as part of a spring arrangement.
- Category: Darwin
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
A deep orange-scarlet bloom with a black base this is an ever-popular tulip variety. Suitable for creating bold statements and landscaping jobs due to the classic cup and rich coloured bloom.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
A great all-rounder these tinged apricot coloured tulips with faint hints of red are delightfully delicate. Perfect for adding into a pastel-coloured scheme or cottage garden design.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Standing proud on ivory-lemon stems, these coral coloured petals deepen to apricot with age. This Fosteriana Tulip is perfect for adding a subtle splash of colour to borders, beds and gardens.
- Category: Fosteriana
- Height (cm): 40
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14
- Blooms: April
An ever-popular variety, Apricot Foxx is a stunning tulip of apricot petals with raspberry outer petals. Perfect for adding to cottage gardens, borders, beds, and containers.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 11/12cm
- Blooms: April
Gorgeous rose pink cupped tulips fading with age to a more tangerine/ orange colour. These stunning tulips are a delightful addition to add a boost of colour or will make a great addition to a planting scheme to make other spring-flowering bulbs 'pop'
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
An impressive flower the Apricot Parrot tulip has large ruffled petals in rich shades of apricot, yellow and tinged with green stripes. Being slightly fragranced they are popular for planters and containers.
- Category: Parrot
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
These tall fluted petals of the Ballade tulip are wonderfully coloured in a rich purple shade with a creamy white edge accentuating their elegance. A stand out variety that is sure to delight and be the envy of your neighbours.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
A lily flowering variety, the Ballerina tulip has beautifully pointed petals in rich bright orange colour. Flowering in mid this is perfect to add late spring/ early summer colour.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Flame red and bronze petals, the bold contrast of colours with our Banja Luka tulip makes it a stand out variety. A tall tulip, this is an ideal choice for adding height and colour to your borders.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Barcelona is a standard cupped tulip with a strong stem. Its beautiful deep pink blooms are suitable for all situations and are such a joy when they flower in the spring
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Beauty of Apeldoorn displays golden orange blooms with splashes of delicate red streaks. With a fresh scent, this Tulip is well suited to borders and containers.
- Category: Darwin hybrid
- Height: 55cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Beautiful creamy petals fringed with vivid pink edges, the Belicia is a real stand out variety. Perfect for adding to established borders to provide large flowering long-lasting blooms.
- Category: Double Early
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
Like lemon lollipops on sticks, these magnificent blooms stand proud on their tall stems. The vivid yellow flower heads are sure to add a boost of welcome colour and stand out next to other strongly coloured tulips.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Dazzling, deep maroon with glossy exterior petals this tulip is a staff favourite. its bold blooms look spectacular in landscaped gardens, pots and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
A true talking piece for any avid gardener, this unusual tulip opens to reveal ruffled cupped petals in a rich velvet maroon. Suitable for containers or beds where their beauty can be appreciated.
- Category: Parrot
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Voluptuous lilac-blue big blooms, appearing in late spring they are a great addition to get that country garden feel. Ideal for adding with daffodils and muscari to create a long flowering display.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Adding impact to your borders, these deep purple-violet blooms will fill out gaps with their lovely double flowers. The multiple petals in a deep rich purple are such a delight and planted amongst other white tulips will create a lovely display.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
These unique fluted petals will add drama to any border and garden. Deep rich purple, they can be planted in mass in either sunny or partial shaded areas.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height: 50 cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: Mid 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