More Beautiful Tulips
Beautiful, colorful tulips continue to bloom at my Bedford, New York farm.
By planting varieties with different bloom times, one can have tulips flowering for six weeks or even more every spring. These brightly colored perennials are hardy in zones 3 to 8 with species ranging in height, form, petal count, and color. Among the tulips flowering right now are 'Sanne,' 'Foxy Foxtrot,' 'Sugar Crystal,' 'Columbus,' 'Qatar,' 'Queensland,' 'Flaming Parrot Tulip,' and 'Estella Rijnveld.'
Enjoy these photos.
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- It’s always so exciting to see what flowers are blooming around the farm. We planted hundreds of tulips in my new vegetable garden and they’re still putting on such a gorgeous show. This variety is ‘Sanne’ – a beautiful dainty two-tone of deep rose in the center of the petals and soft pink along the edge.
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- Tulips are perennial, spring-blooming plants. They are grown for their graceful leaves and bright and cheery flowers.
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- All tulips are planted as bulbs in the fall and bloom in the spring.
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- Tulip ‘Estella Rijnveld’ is a flamboyant bicolor flower with bold red and white flames that vary in width and intensity.
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- The Flaming Parrot tulip is big and bold. It features a variegated yellow and red pattern on ruffled, textured petals atop 18-inch stems.
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- Tulips can range from six-inches to 32-inches in varying shapes and forms.
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- They come in a wide variety of colors. And although the red varieties remain the most popular, they range from white and pale yellow to deep mahogany and violet.
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- This ‘Queensland’ tulip is a double fringed variety. It has rosy colored petals accented with light pink ruffles and serrated edges. The flowers can grow to five-inches across and up to 14-inches tall.
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- Tulips require full sun for the best display, which means at least six-hours of bright, direct sunlight per day.
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- Blue Parrot tulips show-off shades of purple. As the buds open, the fluted and fringed petals unfurl into large blossoms.
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- Tulip ‘Columbus’ is a beautiful peony tulip in glowing reddish pink with white edges. Huge double flowers sit on strong tall stems making it a popular cut flower variety.
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- When planting tulip bulbs, space them about three to four inches apart for the best display in spring.
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- Tulip ‘Qatar’ is another striking double fringed variety – this one in bright red.
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- And do you know… tulips continue to grow after they are cut? Tulips grow about an extra inch after cutting and bend toward the light. Kept well-watered and away from heat, tulips can last about a week.
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- And yes, Tulip Mania was real! It was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when prices for some tulip bulbs reached extraordinarily high levels. It started around 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637.
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- Although Holland is the largest producer of tulip bulbs and flowers, the flower actually originated in Central Asia and Turkey.
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- Tulips hold many different meanings around the world. In Western societies, they represent love. In Persian and Turkish traditions, tulips signify spring and renewal. Dutch cultures associate tulips with wealth and prosperity.
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- These crisp white tulips are growing in a bed outside my greenhouse. Tulipa is the Latin word for tulip and is believed to be derived from Tulipan, meaning “turban” in Turkish – inspired by the shape of the tulip flower.
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- This unique tulip is called ‘Green Wave’ – it is mostly pink with dark green markings.
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- And here’s a delicate yellow tulip with tinges of light green. There are more than 100 species tulips and at least 3,000 variation tulips in different combinations, gradients, and patterns. What are your favorites?
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