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Tall Tulips
Bulb infoFeatured varieties

Tall Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Tall tulips are the best tulips to use at the end of spring in your garden borders. Nature has been kind to gardeners by coming up with a range of...

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Lily-flowered Group Tulips
Featured varieties

Lily-flowered Group Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Lily-flowered Group tulips are deservedly popular. They are tall and elegant with slim-waisted flowers and elongated petals. If I were only allowed to grow one tulip it would have to...

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Red Tulips
Featured varietiesGarden design

Red Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Red is the colour of stop lights, emergency buttons and blood and is also to be found in flowers of many dramatic tulips. Red tulips signal the start of spring...

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Black Tulips
Featured varietiesGarden design

Black Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Black tulips have been the holy grail of tulip breeders for centuries. It is rather like what you don’t have yet is what you want, just like a blue rose...

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Darwinhybrid Group Tulips - Bold And Beautiful
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Darwinhybrid Group Tulips - Bold And Beautiful

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Darwinhybrids are monster tulips, sometimes with blooms bigger than a clenched fist that are guaranteed to make a bold and dramatically beautiful display anywhere.

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How I Use Bulbs in My Garden
Garden design

How I Use Bulbs in My Garden

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Bulbs play an important part in the gardens I design, but maybe the way I use them in my own garden will help other gardeners make a plan for their...

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Using and Choosing Tulips in Gardens
Bulb info

Using and Choosing Tulips in Gardens

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Tulips are for me the icing on the cake in my gardens. Choosing the different sorts and deciding how and where to use them in designs is a particular pleasure....

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A simple guide to growing beautiful Tulips from bulbs
How-to-Guides

A simple guide to growing beautiful Tulips from bulbs

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Mar 18, 2021

There are few sights as beautiful as tulips in springtime.  Fortunately, you don’t need to be gifted with green fingers to be able to create your own stunning display. Just follow...

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Meet Ben, our Flower Bulb Specialist

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