{"id":6041,"date":"2013-12-10T03:13:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2013-12-09T04:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:53:38","slug":"grow-green-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/grow-green-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Green Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost too late to plant your tulips for this year but if you have some unplanted bulbs get them into the ground before the worst frosts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Dawnzy58\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3074\/2390410272_6348d856ea_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take a note book when you visit a spring garden and record the plants you want to grow for next year. When the Tulips are in flower look for those with a green band particularly on the outer petals as this adds a new dimension to your traditional tulip.<\/p>\n<h3>Types of Green Tulips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Viridiflora Tulips can have a lot of green on the outer petals. &#8216;Florosa&#8217; is a pink and white  with a slim and elegant lily shaped flower. &#8216;Spring\u00c2\u00a0 Green&#8217; is cream and &#8216;Greenland&#8217; is rose but my favourite is the terracotta coloured &#8216;Artist&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Amongst Parrot tulips &#8216;Super Parrot&#8217; has ivory and green petals that look a bit like a leaf and make a good cut flower.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the new multi-flowered tulips have  green tinges like &#8216;Ester Rynveld&#8217; and &#8216;Greenwave&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Traditional cottage tulip &#8216;Palestrina&#8217; combines Salmon pink with\u00c2\u00a0 a green vertical band.<\/li>\n<li>Fosteriana are very early flowering and &#8216;Exotic Emperor&#8217; is one of the best. See pictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulipsinthewoods.com\/bulbs\/exotic-emperor\/\">Tulips in the Wood<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Doll Minuet&#8217; is a deep pink flower with a rich green at the base of each petal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4540977115\/\" title=\"Tulip viridiflora by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2777\/4540977115_d2d3161355.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tulip viridiflora\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cut Flower Tulip <a href=\"..\/flowers\/varieties-of-tulips-for-cut-flowers\/\">varieties <\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Scented Tulip<a href=\"..\/flowers\/scented-tulips-for-2009\/\"> varieties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reasons to <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/reasons-types-of-tulips-to-order\/\">Order Tulips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost too late to plant your tulips for this year but if you have some unplanted bulbs get them into the ground before the worst frosts. Take a note book when you visit a spring garden and record the plants you want to grow for next year. When the Tulips are in flower look for those with a green band particularly on the outer petals as this adds a new dimension to your traditional tulip. Types of Green&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/grow-green-tulips\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,222,233],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-novice-gardeners","category-growing-easy-plants","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}