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Feb 18
Texas Flame Tulips
Texas Flame tulips are among the most dramatic yellow-and-red tulips you can grow. Their enormous flowers combine butter-yellow petals with vivid red flames and streaks, while deeply cut, curled edges give each bloom the feathered appearance that defines the Parrot tulip group. Tulipa ‘Texas Flame’ belongs to the Parrot Group, or Division 10. Plants grow …
Feb 18
Black Parrot Tulips
Black Parrot tulips are among the darkest and most dramatic tulips you can grow. Their enormous flowers combine deep purple coloring with blackish interiors and heavily ruffled, feathered petals, creating a bloom that looks far removed from the tidy cup of a traditional garden tulip. Tulipa ‘Black Parrot’ belongs to the Parrot Group, or Division …
Feb 18
Green Wave Tulip Flowers
Green Wave tulips are among the most unusual Parrot tulips, combining pale green, creamy white, and lilac-pink coloring in large, dramatically fringed flowers. Their petals are marked by a strong green midrib and irregular pink-and-cream margins, giving each bloom a hand-painted appearance. Tulipa ‘Green Wave’ belongs to the Parrot Group, or Division 10. It grows …
Feb 18
Blue Parrot Tulip Flowers
Blue Parrot tulips are dramatic late-spring flowers with enormous ruffled blooms in shades of violet, purple, and blue-purple. Despite their name, they are not truly blue. Their unusual coloring has a distinctly cool cast, however, and the heavily frilled petals can appear violet-blue, lavender-purple, or even slightly bronze-purple depending on the light. Tulipa ‘Blue Parrot’ …
Feb 18
Estella Rijnveld Tulip Flowers
Estella Rijnveld tulips are spectacular late-spring flowers with enormous red-and-white blooms covered in deeply fringed, feathered petals. Their vivid scarlet coloring is broken by irregular white streaks and splashes, creating a dramatic pattern that can look almost hand-painted. Tulipa ‘Estella Rijnveld’ belongs to the Parrot Group, or Division 10. Plants grow to around 20 inches …
Feb 18
Yellow Tulips: Best Varieties, Meaning & Growing Guide
Yellow tulips bring some of the brightest color of the spring garden, ranging from soft buttercream and lemon yellow to intense gold. Depending on the variety, yellow tulips can flower from early spring until the final weeks of tulip season, with flower shapes ranging from classic cups to enormous peony-like doubles and wildly feathered Parrot …
Feb 18
Tulip Meaning: Colors, Symbolism & the Language of Tulips
Tulips are among the most recognizable flowers of spring, and over the centuries they have accumulated an equally colorful collection of meanings. Love, passion, happiness, forgiveness, elegance, royalty, and friendship have all become associated with tulips in different times and places. There is one important thing to understand before choosing a tulip based on symbolism: …
Feb 18
Purple Tulips: Best Varieties, Meaning & Growing Guide
Purple tulips can transform a spring garden, offering everything from clear violet and magenta-purple to deep plum, burgundy-purple, and flowers so dark they appear almost black. Some have the simple cup-shaped form most people associate with tulips, while others resemble peonies or display the wildly feathered petals of Parrot varieties. Purple occurs in several major …
Feb 18
White Tulips: Best Varieties, Meaning & Growing Guide
White tulips bring a clean, elegant quality to the spring garden. Depending on the variety, their flowers may be pure snowy white, creamy ivory, pale yellow-white, or white accented with green. Flower shapes range from traditional cups to pointed Lily-Flowered blooms and enormous peony-like doubles. There is no single type of white tulip. White cultivars …
Feb 18
Pink Tulips: Best Varieties, Meaning & Growing Guide
Pink tulips are among the most versatile flowers in the spring garden, with colors ranging from barely-there blush and shell pink to salmon, rose, raspberry, and saturated magenta. Their flowers can be simple and cup-shaped, heavily double like miniature peonies, elegantly pointed, or wildly feathered depending on the variety. There is no single type of …
