Choose the perfect tulip for your garden
Imagine explosions of colour in your garden – from soft pastels to fiery reds. Tulips are the embodiment of spring with their fantastic diversity of shapes and colours. Discover the different varieties of tulips and find out which ones would best suit your garden or balcony.
A tulip for everyone
Combine early, mid and late-blooming tulips to extend the flowering season and enjoy colour in the garden for an extra long time. From playful parrot tulips to classic single early or romantic peony tulips, there is a gorgeous tulip for everyone. Want to attract bees and butterflies to your garden? Choose single-flowered and botanical tulips, which are ideal for pollinators. Which tulip suits your style?
Single Early Tulips
Flowering period: March-April
Height: 25–40 cm
Highlights: These compact, delicate tulips have sturdy stems and are among the first to flower. They’re perfect for pots, borders and the front garden.
Double Early Tulips
Flowering period: April
Height: 30–40 cm
Highlights: These lush tulips resemble peonies and add a luxurious look to your garden. They flower a bit later and do well in sheltered spots or in window boxes.
Triumph Tulips
Flowering period: April-May
Height: 40–60 cm
Highlights: These are strong, sturdy flowers that come in a wide range of colours. They are ideal as cut flowers and reliably bloom every year.
Darwin Hybrid
Flowering period: April-May
Height: 50–70 cm
Highlights: Large, goblet-shaped flowers on long stems. They are resistant to wind and rain and, conditions permitting, can return for several years.
Single Late Tulips
Flowering period: May
Height: 50–75 cm
Highlights: Has the classic tulip shape and comes in a wide variety of colours. Perfect if you want to prolong the tulip season.
Double Late Tulips (Peony Tulips)
Flowering period: May
Height: 45–60 cm
Highlights: Lush, full blooms that add a touch of luxury to your garden. Sheltered location recommended due to their heavy flowers.
Botanical tulips (wild species)
Flowering period: March-April
Height: 10–30 cm
Highlights: Perfect for natural-looking gardens, lawns and rockeries. These tulips will naturalise and return year after year. Because these tulips are low-growing, they are perfect for balconies.
Fringed tulips
Flowering period: April-May
Height: 40–60 cm
Highlights: Striking tulips with a fringed, frosted effect on the petals. They’re often bi-coloured and are real eye-catchers.
Viridiflora Tulips
Flowering period: April-May
Height: 40–50 cm
Highlights: The green stripes on the petals give these tulips a modern look. They have an extended blooming period and are ideal for stylish borders.
Parrot Tulips
Flowering period: May
Height: 50–60 cm
Highlights: Their playful, serrated edges with irregular contours make these tulips real eye-catchers in the garden.
Fun fact: The parrot tulip gets its name from the jagged, curled and sometimes multi-coloured petals that are reminiscent of a parrot’s colourful plumage.
Lily-flowered Tulips
Flowering period: April-May
Height: 50–60 cm
Highlights: Elegant, slender flowers with petals that flare outwards. Perfect for cut flowers and a classic look in the garden.
