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 blooms.

There is no single type of yellow tulip. Yellow cultivars occur throughout many of the major tulip groups, including Fosteriana, Triumph, Darwin Hybrid, Single Late, Double Late, Parrot, and several species tulips. That variety makes it possible to build an entire spring display around yellow without having every flower look the same.

Some yellow tulips are also much better at returning from year to year than others. Fosteriana cultivars such as Yellow Purissima and Darwin Hybrids such as Golden Apeldoorn are particularly useful when perennial performance matters, while spectacular late varieties such as Yellow Pomponette are often grown primarily for their extraordinary flowers.

Whether you want a dependable perennial tulip, a tall cut flower, a compact container plant, or an extravagant late-spring bloom, there is probably a yellow tulip suited to the job.

💛 Yellow Tulips Quick Guide

Feature	Yellow Tulips
Botanical genus	Tulipa
Flower colors	Creamy yellow, lemon, canary, golden yellow and multicolored yellow
Bloom season	Early through late spring
Typical height	About 4–30 inches, depending on type
Light	Full sun; some types tolerate part sun
Soil	Well-drained soil
Planting time	Fall after soil temperatures cool
Typical planting depth	About 6–8 inches for large garden tulips
Typical spacing	About 4–6 inches
Best uses	Borders, containers, mass plantings and cut flowers
Perennial performance	Depends strongly on tulip group
Best repeat-flowering groups	Fosteriana, Darwin Hybrid and many species tulips

🌷 What Are Yellow Tulips?

Yellow tulips are not one botanical species or horticultural class. They are simply tulips whose flowers are predominantly yellow.

That distinction matters because two yellow tulips can behave very differently in the garden.

A yellow Fosteriana tulip may bloom early, have enormous flowers, and return reliably for several seasons. A yellow Triumph tulip may bloom in mid-spring on shorter sturdy stems. A Single Late tulip can tower over neighboring plants near the end of the season, while a Double Late cultivar may produce a flower so densely packed with petals that it resembles a yellow peony.

Our Tulip Varieties: Types, Colors & Popular Cultivars guide covers the major horticultural divisions in greater detail.

For the yellow-tulip gardener, the important lesson is simple: choose varieties by more than color. Bloom time, height, flower shape, weather tolerance, and perennial potential can be just as important.

☀️ What Do Yellow Tulips Mean?

Flower symbolism is cultural rather than botanical, so there is no scientifically fixed meaning assigned to a yellow tulip.

In modern Western flower-gifting traditions, however, yellow tulips are commonly associated with cheerfulness, happiness, sunshine, warmth, and friendly good wishes.

Their appearance makes those associations easy to understand. Few spring flowers look more cheerful than a bed of brilliant yellow tulips after winter.

Older flower-language traditions sometimes assigned yellow tulips less cheerful meanings, including unrequited or hopeless love. Those associations have largely faded from modern floral use, where yellow tulips are much more likely to represent happiness and cheerful thoughts.

💐 When Are Yellow Tulips a Good Gift?

Because modern yellow-tulip symbolism emphasizes warmth and cheerfulness, they work well for occasions where a bright, friendly flower feels appropriate.

Yellow tulips can be a good choice for:

Birthdays
Congratulations
Housewarmings
Spring celebrations
Thank-you bouquets
Friendship gifts
Get-well arrangements
“Thinking of you” flowers

They are also useful when red roses or red tulips would feel too romantic.

Of course, flower meanings are flexible. If someone’s favorite color is yellow, that personal connection matters far more than any traditional symbolism.

🌍 Where Do Tulips Come From?

Tulips are strongly associated with the Netherlands today, but the genus Tulipa has a much broader native range stretching from parts of Europe and the Mediterranean through western and Central Asia toward Mongolia.

Many wild tulips originated in Central Asia.

Tulips were being cultivated in Istanbul centuries ago and became highly prized flowers in Ottoman gardens. They later became fashionable in Europe and eventually became closely associated with Dutch horticulture.

Modern garden tulips are the product of centuries of selection and breeding, resulting in the enormous diversity of colors and forms available today.

Yellow appears throughout that diversity, from small botanical tulips to some of the largest hybrid cultivars.

🌼 Best Yellow Tulip Varieties

One of the easiest ways to choose among yellow tulips is by bloom time and flower form.

Variety	Group	Approx. Bloom Time	Approx. Height	Best Feature
Yellow Purissima	Fosteriana	Early–mid spring	16 in.	Early bloom and good perennial performance
Golden Apeldoorn	Darwin Hybrid	Mid-spring	22 in.	Large flowers and excellent repeat potential
Yellow Flight	Triumph	Mid–late spring	11–16 in.	Compact, sturdy classic yellow tulip
Big Smile	Single Late	Late spring	22–26 in.	Tall stems and large yellow flowers
Yellow Pomponette	Double Late	Late spring	16–22 in.	Peony-like double flowers
Texas Flame	Parrot	Late spring	About 18 in.	Yellow petals with dramatic red flames
Flaming Parrot	Parrot	Late spring	Around 20 in.	Feathered yellow flowers with red markings

By growing selections from several groups, you can keep yellow tulips appearing from relatively early spring until the final stages of tulip season.

💛 Yellow Purissima Tulips

Yellow Purissima Tulips are one of the strongest choices for gardeners who want early yellow flowers combined with good perennial potential.

Yellow Purissima belongs to the Fosteriana Group, also known as Emperor tulips.

Its large flowers are butter yellow to canary yellow and open broadly in spring sunshine. Plants remain around 16 inches tall, giving them enough presence for borders without exposing enormous flowers to the same wind pressure experienced by very tall cultivars.

Fosteriana tulips are also among the better modern groups for returning successfully over several years.

If you want to begin a yellow-tulip succession with a variety worth trying as a long-term garden plant, Yellow Purissima is an excellent starting point.

🌞 Golden Apeldoorn Tulips

Golden Apeldoorn Tulips take over during the middle portion of the tulip season.

This classic Darwin Hybrid cultivar produces large golden-yellow flowers on stems around 22 inches tall.

When the flowers open widely, a dark star-shaped marking becomes visible at their base, adding dramatic contrast to the yellow petals.

Golden Apeldoorn is also one of the better choices for perennial flowering.

Darwin Hybrid Tulips are generally among the strongest large-flowered modern tulips for repeat performance, making Golden Apeldoorn particularly useful for gardeners who do not want to replace every bulb annually.

🌼 Yellow Flight Tulips

Yellow Flight Tulips provide the traditional tulip look in a more compact plant.

Yellow Flight belongs to the Triumph Group.

Its flowers are bright yellow and cup-shaped, carried on relatively sturdy stems approximately 11 to 16 inches tall.

That shorter growth habit makes Yellow Flight particularly useful for containers, raised beds, the front of borders, and gardens exposed to ordinary spring wind.

Triumph tulips are generally shorter-lived than Darwin Hybrids or Fosteriana varieties, but they are excellent garden performers during their best flowering years.

Yellow Flight is a particularly good choice when you want a straightforward classic yellow tulip rather than an oversized or elaborately shaped flower.

😃 Big Smile Tulips

Big Smile Tulips bring yellow color into the late part of tulip season.

Big Smile belongs to the Single Late Group.

It can reach approximately 22 to 26 inches tall and produces large yellow flowers on long stems.

This height makes Big Smile particularly useful toward the middle or back of spring borders and in cutting gardens.

Its flowers are simple rather than heavily textured, giving Big Smile a clean appearance that pairs beautifully with more elaborate late varieties.

For a striking combination, plant Big Smile with deep-purple or near-black Single Late tulips such as Queen of Night Tulips.

🌼 Yellow Pomponette Tulips

Yellow Pomponette Tulips offer a completely different interpretation of the yellow tulip.

Yellow Pomponette belongs to the Double Late Group.

Instead of a simple cup, its flowers contain layer after layer of golden-yellow petals.

Fully open flowers can resemble yellow peonies or large pom-poms.

Because Double Late tulips flower toward the end of the season, Yellow Pomponette makes an excellent finale after simpler earlier yellow cultivars.

It is especially beautiful with Black Hero Tulips or Blue Spectacle Tulips, both of which provide dramatic dark or violet contrast while maintaining the lush Double Late flower form.

🔥 Texas Flame Tulips

Not every yellow tulip has to be solid yellow.

Texas Flame Tulips are Parrot tulips with butter-yellow petals covered in vivid red flames and streaks.

The petals are deeply cut, curled, and feathered.

As the flowers open, they become large and irregular, looking far more exotic than a traditional tulip.

Texas Flame is useful when you want yellow to remain the dominant garden color but would like to introduce red without planting a completely separate block of solid-red flowers.

Like other Parrot Tulips, it performs best somewhere protected from severe wind and rain.

🔥 Flaming Parrot Tulips

Flaming Parrot Tulip provides another late-season red-and-yellow option.

Its feathered flowers combine strong red markings with a yellow background that may become paler as the flowers mature.

The large Parrot petals twist, wave, and curl as the blooms open.

Flaming Parrot and Texas Flame can be grown together, although they are distinct cultivars.

Both work particularly well when surrounded by simpler yellow flowers so their extravagant patterns remain the focal point.

🌱 Yellow Species Tulips

Gardeners interested in smaller, longer-lived tulips should also consider species or botanical tulips.

Several species produce yellow flowers.

Tulipa tarda is a compact species tulip with yellow-centered flowers tipped in white. Plants remain only a few inches tall, making them useful for rock gardens, border edges, and other small-scale plantings.

Tulipa sylvestris produces fragrant yellow flowers and can grow considerably taller.

Species tulips tend to have much smaller flowers than cultivars such as Golden Apeldoorn or Big Smile, but many are excellent long-term garden plants and some can naturalize when conditions suit them.

They are particularly useful for gardeners more interested in longevity than enormous flowers.

📅 How to Create a Long Yellow Tulip Season

One of the best reasons to grow several yellow cultivars is that you can extend flowering across much of spring.

A simple progression could look like this:

Early spring: Yellow Purissima and yellow botanical tulips.

Mid-spring: Golden Apeldoorn.

Mid- to late spring: Yellow Flight.

Late spring: Big Smile, Yellow Pomponette, Texas Flame, and Flaming Parrot.

Actual flowering periods overlap and shift depending on climate and spring temperatures, so you should not expect each cultivar to begin immediately after the previous one finishes.

The goal is simply to choose tulips from multiple flowering groups.

This approach is more reliable than planting five cultivars from the same division and hoping they somehow extend the season.

🌱 Which Yellow Tulips Come Back Best?

Not all tulips have the same perennial potential.

Many modern large-flowered tulips bloom beautifully for the first few years and then gradually lose vigor.

Among yellow cultivars, Yellow Purissima and Golden Apeldoorn are particularly strong choices for gardeners interested in repeat flowering.

Yellow Purissima belongs to the Fosteriana Group.

Golden Apeldoorn belongs to the Darwin Hybrid Group.

Both groups are considered among the better modern tulips for perennial performance.

Many species tulips are even longer lived and can sometimes naturalize.

By contrast, Triumph, Single Late, Double Late, Parrot, and several other highly bred garden divisions often provide their strongest display for a more limited number of seasons.

That does not make them poor garden plants. It simply means they may need periodic replacement if you want a dense display every spring.

🌷 Are Tulips Annuals or Perennials?

Botanically, tulips are perennial bulbs.

That does not mean every garden tulip will return strongly forever.

Many modern cultivars bloom well for approximately three or four years before flower production declines. Some gardeners therefore treat these varieties almost like annuals, planting fresh bulbs for a guaranteed display.

Other groups perform much better over time.

Darwin Hybrid, Fosteriana, and many species tulips have stronger reputations for repeat flowering.

The distinction is important when buying bulbs.

If you want one spectacular spring display, choose whatever flower attracts you most.

If you want to build a longer-lived tulip planting, cultivar group becomes much more important.

☀️ How Much Sun Do Yellow Tulips Need?

Most yellow tulips perform best in full sun.

Aim for at least six hours of direct sunlight during their active spring growth whenever possible.

Some tulips can tolerate part sun.

Early-flowering varieties may even perform well beneath deciduous trees because the bulbs grow and flower before the tree canopy fully develops.

For perennializing tulips, adequate post-bloom sunlight is important.

The leaves continue photosynthesizing after flowering, rebuilding the bulb for the following year.

A location that becomes extremely shady immediately after bloom can reduce this process.

🌱 Best Soil for Yellow Tulips

Good drainage is one of the most important requirements for tulips.

They perform best in soil that retains enough moisture for active spring growth but allows excess water to drain away.

Persistently wet soil can lead to bulb decline and rot.

Loam and sandy loam are excellent.

Heavy clay may need improvement, or bulbs can be grown in raised beds or containers where drainage is easier to control.

Tulips can tolerate a fairly broad range of soil pH, so drainage is generally a more important consideration than trying to achieve an exact acidity level.

🍂 When to Plant Yellow Tulip Bulbs

Plant tulip bulbs in fall after the soil has cooled.

The exact month depends on climate.

Tulips need a prolonged cold period to flower normally, which is why they are naturally well suited to regions with cold winters.

There is generally little reason to rush tulip bulbs into warm soil early in fall.

In cold climates, they can often be planted fairly late as long as the ground remains workable.

Gardeners in regions with mild winters may need to purchase pre-chilled bulbs or chill the bulbs before planting.

🪴 How Deep Should You Plant Yellow Tulips?

For standard large garden tulips, a planting depth of approximately 6 to 8 inches is a useful general guideline.

Planting depth is measured from the bottom of the bulb to the soil surface.

Smaller botanical or species tulips are generally planted less deeply.

Spacing around 4 to 6 inches apart works well for most standard-sized tulip bulbs.

Individual bulb suppliers and cultivar references sometimes recommend somewhat shallower planting, so it is reasonable to follow specific instructions supplied with your bulbs when they differ from the general rule.

Place bulbs with their pointed ends facing upward.

Water the planting after covering the bulbs with soil.

🌷 How Many Yellow Tulips Should You Plant Together?

Tulips usually look better in groups than planted one at a time.

For standard garden tulips, a group of at least five bulbs is a reasonable starting point.

Ten or more often creates a much stronger display.

For a large border, consider planting 15, 25, 50, or more of one cultivar.

Avoid placing bulbs in rigid single-file rows unless you deliberately want a formal effect.

Broad clusters and irregular drifts usually look much more natural.

Another effective approach is to repeat several smaller groups of the same yellow cultivar throughout a bed.

🌈 What Colors Look Good With Yellow Tulips?

Yellow is one of the easiest tulip colors to combine.

For a bold garden, pair yellow with:

Purple
Violet
Burgundy
Near-black purple
Red
Orange

For a softer palette, try:

White
Cream
Blush pink
Apricot
Pale lavender
Soft blue spring flowers

Yellow and purple provide especially strong contrast.

Cultivars such as Negrita Tulips and Triumph Tulip ‘Purple Flag’ can provide purple during the middle portion of the season.

Later, Queen of Night Tulips and Black Parrot Tulips can create an even darker contrast.

💜 Yellow and Purple Tulip Gardens

Yellow and purple form one of the classic high-contrast garden combinations.

If you want a strong display, plant recognizable blocks of each color rather than alternating every bulb.

For example, plant 15 Golden Apeldoorn bulbs beside a substantial group of purple tulips.

Later in the season, repeat the same palette with Yellow Pomponette or Big Smile beside Queen of Night, Black Hero, Blue Spectacle, or Black Parrot.

This repetition allows the individual cultivars to change as spring progresses while the overall design remains cohesive.

❤️ Yellow and Red Tulip Gardens

Yellow and red create a warmer and more traditional spring display.

The combination works especially well in large borders where bold colors can be viewed from a distance.

Golden Apeldoorn can be paired with red Darwin Hybrids.

Later, Big Smile can be paired with red Single Late varieties.

Texas Flame and Flaming Parrot incorporate both colors into the flowers themselves.

Orange can be added as a bridge between yellow and red if you want a more gradual transition.

🌸 Yellow and Pink Tulip Gardens

Pink softens yellow considerably.

Blush and rose-colored tulips can create a romantic spring display without losing the cheerful quality of the yellow flowers.

Rosy Delight Tulips work particularly well with Golden Apeldoorn because both belong to the Darwin Hybrid group.

Later, Pink Diamond Tulips can complement Big Smile, while Angelique Tulips can be paired with Yellow Pomponette for a garden filled with peony-like Double Late flowers.

🤍 Yellow and White Tulips

Yellow and white create one of the freshest spring combinations.

Bright yellow provides energy while white prevents a large planting from becoming visually overwhelming.

This combination works particularly well near:

Front entrances
White houses
Patios
Walkways
Formal beds
Courtyards

Cream-colored flowers can be substituted for pure white if you want a warmer effect.

Fresh green foliage naturally completes the palette.

🌸 Best Companion Plants for Yellow Tulips

Yellow tulips combine well with many familiar spring plants.

Good companions include:

Daffodils
Grape hyacinths
Hyacinths
Forget-me-nots
Violas
Pansies
Primroses
Alliums

Later-growing perennials can perform another important job by hiding declining tulip foliage.

Plants such as hostas, catmint, hardy geraniums, salvia, daylilies, and ornamental grasses can gradually grow around the tulip leaves.

Do not remove healthy tulip foliage simply because it becomes less attractive after flowering.

🪴 Growing Yellow Tulips in Containers

Many yellow tulips grow beautifully in containers.

Shorter cultivars such as Yellow Flight are especially convenient for pots, but even taller tulips can be grown successfully when the container is large and stable enough.

Drainage holes are essential.

Fill the container with a freely draining growing medium and plant bulbs in fall.

A pot planted entirely with one yellow cultivar can be more effective than an overly complicated mixture.

For contrast, combine yellow with a purple cultivar having a similar height and flowering period.

Container-grown tulips experience greater temperature fluctuations than bulbs in the ground, so winter protection may be necessary in extremely cold climates.

✂️ Are Yellow Tulips Good Cut Flowers?

Many yellow tulips make excellent cut flowers.

Tall cultivars such as Golden Apeldoorn and Big Smile provide long stems for arrangements, while Yellow Pomponette produces exceptionally full flowers.

Cut tulips when their buds have begun showing their mature color but are still largely closed.

Tulips continue opening and growing after harvest.

Their stems can noticeably lengthen in the vase, sometimes creating the curved and informal appearance characteristic of tulip arrangements.

Yellow flowers pair especially well with white, purple, blush pink, red, and fresh green foliage.

💧 How to Water Yellow Tulips

Water thoroughly after planting if the soil is dry.

Natural autumn, winter, and spring precipitation may provide much of the water tulips need.

During prolonged dry weather in spring, provide supplemental moisture.

Avoid keeping the soil constantly saturated.

Once flowers finish and leaves begin declining, reduce supplemental irrigation.

Tulip bulbs generally prefer relatively dry conditions during summer dormancy.

Constant summer watering is one reason bulbs sometimes perform poorly when planted among annuals or other plants requiring frequent irrigation.

🌿 Do Yellow Tulips Need Fertilizer?

Tulips planted in reasonably fertile soil may need little supplemental fertilizer.

A bulb or balanced garden fertilizer can be used when soil fertility is low, but more fertilizer does not automatically produce better flowers.

Avoid excessive nitrogen, which can encourage foliage rather than balanced growth.

For bulbs you intend to keep, allowing the foliage to remain healthy after flowering is extremely important.

Those leaves manufacture and store energy inside the bulb for the following year.

🌿 What to Do After Yellow Tulips Bloom

Once the flowers fade, remove the spent flower heads if you intend to retain the bulbs.

Leave the green leaves alone.

Tulip foliage should remain attached until it naturally turns yellow or brown.

Removing the leaves too early stops the bulb-building process and can reduce flowering the following spring.

Later-growing perennials are an excellent way to hide declining leaves.

Once the foliage has died naturally, it can be removed.

🔄 Should You Leave Tulip Bulbs in the Ground?

Whether bulbs should remain in place depends partly on the cultivar and growing conditions.

Darwin Hybrids, Fosteriana tulips, and many species tulips are worth leaving in well-drained garden soil because they have relatively good perennial potential.

Other groups may gradually decline even with excellent care.

If your garden has heavy summer irrigation or poorly drained soil, lifting bulbs after their foliage dies can keep them drier during dormancy.

Bulbs that are lifted should be dried and stored somewhere cool, dry, and well ventilated until fall planting.

🐿️ How to Protect Yellow Tulip Bulbs From Squirrels

Squirrels sometimes dig newly planted tulip bulbs.

Planting bulbs at the proper depth can make them more difficult to reach.

After planting, firm the soil and water the area.

Where squirrel pressure is severe, wire mesh or hardware cloth can be placed over the planting area during winter and removed before shoots emerge strongly in spring.

Deer and rabbits may also browse tulip foliage and flowers after plants emerge, so above-ground protection may be needed where those animals are common.

🦠 Common Tulip Problems

Bulb rot is one of the most preventable tulip problems.

It commonly becomes worse where soil remains wet for prolonged periods.

Tulip fire is another significant disease and can cause distorted shoots, spots on leaves, and damaged flowers.

Start with firm, healthy bulbs and discard anything that is soft, extensively moldy, or obviously decayed.

Good drainage, sensible spacing, and removal of severely diseased material can reduce problems.

Slugs, aphids, squirrels, rodents, and browsing animals may also affect tulip plantings.

⚠️ Are Yellow Tulips Toxic?

Yellow tulips should not be eaten.

Like other members of the genus Tulipa, their bulbs and plant tissues contain compounds capable of causing irritation or illness when ingested.

The bulbs are particularly important to keep away from children and pets that may chew them.

Repeated contact with tulip bulbs can also cause skin irritation in some gardeners.

Wearing gloves while planting or handling large quantities of bulbs is a sensible precaution.

❓ Yellow Tulip FAQ

What do yellow tulips symbolize?

In modern flower-gifting traditions, yellow tulips are commonly associated with cheerful thoughts, happiness, warmth, and sunshine. Flower symbolism varies by culture and era, so these meanings should be viewed as traditions rather than fixed rules.

What are the best yellow tulips?

Excellent choices include Yellow Purissima, Golden Apeldoorn, Yellow Flight, Big Smile, and Yellow Pomponette. The best cultivar depends on whether you prioritize early bloom, perennial performance, height, or unusual flower shape.

Which yellow tulip blooms earliest?

Among the cultivars covered here, Yellow Purissima is one of the earliest because it belongs to the Fosteriana Group.

Which yellow tulip is best for perennializing?

Yellow Purissima and Golden Apeldoorn are excellent choices. Fosteriana and Darwin Hybrid tulips generally have better repeat-flowering potential than many other large-flowered modern groups.

What is the tallest yellow tulip?

Big Smile is one of the taller varieties in this collection, commonly reaching around 22 to 26 inches.

Which yellow tulip has double flowers?

Yellow Pomponette is a Double Late cultivar with densely packed peony-like yellow blooms.

Which yellow tulip has red stripes?

Texas Flame and Flaming Parrot both combine yellow with strong red markings and elaborate Parrot petals.

Do yellow tulips come back every year?

Some do much better than others. Fosteriana, Darwin Hybrid, and many species tulips generally return more reliably. Many Triumph, Parrot, Double Late, and Single Late cultivars may decline after several seasons.

When should yellow tulips be planted?

Plant them in fall after soil temperatures cool but before the ground becomes permanently frozen.

How deep should yellow tulip bulbs be planted?

Large garden tulips are commonly planted around 6 to 8 inches deep, measured from the base of the bulb to the soil surface. Smaller species tulips are generally planted less deeply.

Do yellow tulips need full sun?

Full sun is best for most tulips, although some can tolerate part sun.

Can yellow tulips grow in containers?

Yes. Many cultivars perform very well in pots as long as the container provides excellent drainage and adequate winter conditions.

Are yellow tulips good cut flowers?

Yes. Many cultivars make excellent cut flowers, particularly tall Darwin Hybrid, Triumph, and Single Late varieties.

💛 Are Yellow Tulips Worth Growing?

Yellow tulips are one of the easiest ways to bring strong spring color into a garden, and their variety is much greater than the simple phrase “yellow tulip” suggests.

You can grow soft butter-yellow Fosteriana flowers, towering golden Darwin Hybrids, compact Triumph tulips, enormous late-season Single Late blooms, peony-like doubles, or wildly feathered Parrot varieties.

The key is choosing cultivars according to what you actually want from the planting.

For longevity, begin with Yellow Purissima and Golden Apeldoorn.

For a compact classic tulip, choose Yellow Flight.

For tall late-season flowers, grow Big Smile.

For enormous peony-like blooms, plant Yellow Pomponette.

For something truly unusual, add Texas Flame or Flaming Parrot.

Better still, grow several.

By selecting yellow tulips from early-, mid-, and late-flowering groups, you can carry the same cheerful color through much of spring while allowing the height and flower shape of the garden to change from week to week.