It might look like we are getting ahead of ourselves here at YouGarden, but now is the perfect time to start thinking about your blooming brilliant spring bulb displays.
After a cold and grey winter, what is better than the sight of spring flowers pushing up through the soil? Autumn is the time to start planting your spring garden, and now is the time to start planning. Bulbs are some of the easiest and most rewarding plants to grow. Perfect for brightening up beds and borders, or in pots dotted around your garden and patio.
Tulips are always a spring favourite thanks to the huge variety of colours, shapes and sizes. Here at YouGarden, we have a huge variety of tulips that have just become available for pre-order. If your looking for Single Tulips, Double Tulips, Species Tulips, or Tulip Collection, we have got the blooms you need to create your simply gorgeous spring displays.
Here are YouGarden’s Top 10 Tulip Picks that are all in our fantastic 3 for 2 offer!
Single Tulips
Tulip Tulipa ‘Triumph Red’
A cheerful perennial, producing a burst of dramatic colour in mid-late spring. ‘Triumph Red’ is the perfect tulip for beds, borders and containers. These single, classic cup-shaped flowers grow on sturdy stems and are resistant to wind and rain. They also have a fabulous bouquet that makes them ideal for cutting. Easy to grow, they thrive in rich, fertile, well-drained conditions, enjoying full or afternoon sun.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Triumph White’
Triumph tulips are a cross between two exceptional and successful varieties. The result is a range of outstanding, robust tulips in fabulous colours. The gorgeous, pure white bowl-shaped flowers look absolutely pristine above broad grey-green leaves. Plant them alone for a refreshing spring display, they don’t need any help to look magnificent. However, mixing with pastel tulips will create a wonderful glade-like atmosphere.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Apricot Foxx’
This beautiful apricot coloured tulip is incredibly versatile, very strong and sturdy and embraces the classic tulip shape. Tulips are one of the most popular spring bulbs as they are so easy to plant and grow and are perfect for planting in a mix of many different colour variations, giving your garden, patio or decking a fresh and vibrant spring makeover.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Double Tulips
Tulip ‘Double Pink’
Known as the ‘Peony Tulip’ because of the striking resemblance. ‘Double Pink’ has huge ruffled, creamy pink blooms, which last for weeks thanks to their strong, vigorous nature. Perfect in pots on the patio, or mixed up in beds and borders. A gorgeous variety of tulip that is a great choice for creating a romantic, cottage garden display in the spring.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Carnaval de Nice’
This stunning double tulip offers full, white flowers, each petal feathered with raspberry-red stripes as if painted on. The colour and form of this variety are perfectly framed by pretty, silvery-green foliage. A long-lasting tulip, the display will last for two months. They are an ideal choice to extend the springtime cheer in your beds, borders and containers. Their striking, bowl-shaped blossoms make a charming display in a vase.
Pack of 12 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Double Red’
A fabulous double tulip, producing a burst of rich colour in spring. ‘Perfect for beds, borders and containers. With double-cupped, bowl-shaped blossoms and medium stem length, they are ideal for cutting. An easy-to-grow, hardy perennial, ‘Double Red’ will thrive in rich fertile, well-drained conditions, enjoying full or afternoon sun.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Bicoloured Tulips
Tulip Tulipa ‘Gavota’
A bold, chestnut-brown pointed petal, tipped with ochre yellow, gives tulip ‘Gavota’ a distinct colour contrast that will add drama to your mid and late spring flowering. With long-lasting blooms through April and early May, they are an ideal choice to extend springtime flowering in your beds, borders and containers. Set on top of sturdy stems, the striking colours are enhanced by its gorgeous green foliage, which will also provide a delightful display for your vase.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip Tulipa ‘Triumph Pink & White Bicolour’
A versatile bulb producing a fantastic display of delicate pink and white flowers in mid-late spring. With single-bloom, classic cup-shaped flowers growing on sturdy stems, they are resistant to wind and rain, with a fabulous bouquet that makes them ideal for cutting. Easy to grow, they thrive in rich fertile, well-drained conditions, enjoying full or afternoon sun.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Flaming Flag’
A beautiful tulip with white petals and deep purple flames running up the outside. ‘Flaming Flag’ is surprisingly hardy and weather-resistant. They’re so easy to grow, making them one of the most popular bulbs to plant. Try planting ‘Flaming Flag’ alongside another purple variety such as ‘Queen of the Night’ to really set off the white petals, or mix up with ‘Washington’ for another striking two-tone flower.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
Tulip ‘Washington’
These eye-catching yellow petals are feathered with a rich red streak that gives the illusions they are painted. These tulips are surprisingly tough and weather resistant. They are across between early and late flowering varieties, this gives them the added benefit of an extended flowering period. You’ll get strong and long-lasting displays in the garden but you’ll also be able to create the most beautiful indoor displays when cutting them.
Pack of 15 Bulbs – £5.99
YouGarden’s Top Tip
Which way up? Usually, pointy end up! But if you are not sure, plant the bulb on its side and it will eventually right itself.
