This post may be an excuse to show photos of some good looking Tulips or it may be a timely reminder to buy some new bulbs.

Why Order and Plant Tulips

• Best quality Tulips give the best display. Order early from a specialist or renown supplier.
• Tulips can supply that wild dash of colour in a spring garden or vase of flowers.
• Several Tulips have a scent that is worth cultivating.
• Botanic and species Tulips offer something a bit different in your gardem

A selection of tulips are available from Thompson & Morgan

Colour and Tulips

• The first couple of photographs were selected because they start to show the range of colour available from the tulip family.
• Matched is better than a large variety of colours so I avoid mixtures.
• Swathes of one colour and variety will flower at the same time.
• Selecting two harmonising colours requires you to plan the varieties that will flower at the same time and height.

Scent and Tulips

• Orange Tulips are said by John Hiorns to have the best scent and Ballerina and Veronique Sanson fit this bill.
• The magenta coloured Margarita is a double flowering quite early when scent is at a premium.
• The 10″ high Peach Blossom has fine flowers with pink outer petals and a distinctive white eye and a scent to entrance.

Different Tulips

• These Shirley Tulips are a nice bicolour.
• Fringed and Parrot tulips are popular if you want something a bit different.
• Viridian Tulips have  a stripe of green on the outer petals and look green when closed.
• Double Tulips are all the rage at the moment – Order some for your Autumn planting.

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Cut Flower Tulip varieties

More Scented Tulip varieties