Tulip Bulbs - All
Here at Boston Seeds, we have a wide variety of tulip bulbs to choose from. Order your tulip bulbs today to secure your favourite varieties for delivery and planting this autumn.
Whether you are looking for something tall, short, double blooms, or single later flowering, our tulip range is second to none. From cut flower varieties such as the bold Ballerina Tulip Bulbs to our striking ruffled petalled Apricot Parrot, we have something for everyone. Can't find what you are looking for? Give us a call and we will be happy to help.
Like everything we supply here at Boston Seeds, we pride ourselves on supplying professional quality - and for flower bulbs, that means BIG! Our bigger bulbs produce bigger, better and bolder flowers. Choose from our exciting range of varieties - Black Hero Tulip Bulbs, old favourites, garden classics as well as striking new lines for 2024.
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Choose lucky dip and we'll send you 50 tulip bulbs of the variety of our choosing!
As we near the end of the season and our stocks run low, you'll get ludicrously good value bulbs and we'll clear our stocks so that not a single bulb goes to waste.
Buy as many as you like and we'll ensure that every 50 bulbs are different. Our Tulip Bulb Lucky Dip is perfect to add masses of colour to gardens and borders at a great value price, perfect to plant this autumn.
A carefully selected mixture of bold, bright and vibrant tulips will add an array of colour, height and shape to your borders and garden. A kaleidoscope of colour for filling your borders with stunning tulips!
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A bold, bright and beautiful array of mixed tulips, containing a minimum of 5 varieties selected by us to provide you with a great selection of different heights, colours and sizes. Suitable for landscaped areas or also great value for bulking up your borders.
- Height (cm): 30 - 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 10/12cm
- Blooms: April- June
These tall fluted petals of the Ballade tulip are wonderfully coloured in a rich purple shade with a creamy white edge accentuating their elegance. A stand out variety that is sure to delight and be the envy of your neighbours.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Barcelona is a standard cupped tulip with a strong stem. Its beautiful deep pink blooms are suitable for all situations and are such a joy when they flower in the spring
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A cone-shaped flower head, starting off with a purple, tinged green base, opening to reveal multiple pure white petals. True to its name, the shape and way this tulip opens really look like an Ice Cream.
- Category: Double Late
- Height (cm): 25cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 11/12cm
- Blooms: May/ June
The ruffled citrus double blooms of the Marie Jo tulip are simply stunning. These fantastic flowers look stunning planted in bulk alongside such varieties as Dordogne Tulip Bulbs and Amberglow Tulip Bulbs to provide a great spring display.
- Category: Double
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Purple-tipped petals that literally look like they are dancing in the wind, this great new addition is much welcomed in any garden.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Candy floss pink petals, these lucious, sugary blooms look almost good enough to eat! With strong, dark green stems, they will hold well in wind and rain, and can also be used for cut flowers.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 6/+cm
- Blooms: April
Value for money, the Toronto tulip is a multi-headed variety that flowers with large deep red blooms. Not overly tall, it is ideal for filling in gaps in the front of borders.
- Category: Greigii
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Cardinal red double blooms, these gigantic flowers aren't the tallest but perfect for filling your borders. Great for naturalising, they also provide a source of nectar for bees and butterflies.
- Category: Double
- Height (cm): 25cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Specifically designed to help bulbs establish in pots and borders, without the risk of the bulbs rotting, providing an open and free-draining soil structure.
- Ideal for planting with Narcissi, Crocus, Hyacinths and other spring-flowering bulbs
- Universal bulb planting fibre
- 500gm bag - This pack is sufficient for 3 x 1-litre pots
The ultimate tool for planting quickly and easily your plants and bulbs. A quality solid ash handle securely fitted to a stainless steel blade, the traditional deisgn is ideal to assist in planting your plants and bulbs into beds, borders and grassland.
- Made of high quality polished stainless steel
- Ash handle - sourced from a sustainable source
- Soft leather strap - ideal to hang up
Making bulb planting easier, quicker and cleaner, our bulb planter is the ideal tool for helping you plant your spring-flowering bulbs.
- Made of high quality steel
- Automatic release on handle
- Duroplast coating - impact, elastic, abrasion, and corrosion - resistant
- Depth Scale
A dynasty formed by the well-known Emperor tulips, this magnificently bright collection will break up any dull and long-forgotten areas and make turn them into a place to be enjoyed.
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Blooms: April
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Another stunning variety, these cherry red petals are flushed with lovely yellow edges and a yellow base. Standing tall they are suitable for cut flowers and look fantastic as part of a spring arrangement.
- Category: Darwin
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
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A deep orange-scarlet bloom with a black base this is an ever-popular tulip variety. Suitable for creating bold statements and landscaping jobs due to the classic cup and rich coloured bloom.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
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An ever-popular variety, Apricot Foxx is a stunning tulip of apricot petals with raspberry outer petals. Perfect for adding to cottage gardens, borders, beds, and containers.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 11/12cm
- Blooms: April
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Gorgeous rose pink cupped tulips fading with age to a more tangerine/ orange colour. These stunning tulips are a delightful addition to add a boost of colour or will make a great addition to a planting scheme to make other spring-flowering bulbs 'pop'
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
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An impressive flower the Apricot Parrot tulip has large ruffled petals in rich shades of apricot, yellow and tinged with green stripes. Being slightly fragranced they are popular for planters and containers.
- Category: Parrot
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
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A lily flowering variety, the Ballerina tulip has beautifully pointed petals in rich bright orange colour. Flowering in mid this is perfect to add late spring/ early summer colour.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
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Flame red and bronze petals, the bold contrast of colours with our Banja Luka tulip makes it a stand out variety. A tall tulip, this is an ideal choice for adding height and colour to your borders.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
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Beauty of Apeldoorn displays golden orange blooms with splashes of delicate red streaks. With a fresh scent, this Tulip is well suited to borders and containers.
- Category: Darwin hybrid
- Height: 55cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
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Beautiful creamy petals fringed with vivid pink edges, the Belicia is a real stand out variety. Perfect for adding to established borders to provide large flowering long-lasting blooms.
- Category: Double Early
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
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Tulip Bulbs from Boston Seeds
At Boston Seeds, we have a wide selection of tulips, including dwarf and lily tulips. As their name suggests, Dwarf tulips are bred for their short stems, usually growing no higher than 25cm, but bloom no less vibrant than any other tulip. Meanwhile, Lily-Flowering tulips are the plant with the greatest visual difference from other tulips- again, their name best describes their elegant shape.
Both Dwarf tulips and Lily tulips make excellent cut flowers. Tulips make for excellent cut flowers in general, as they’re hardy enough to continue growing in a vase for a little while, even after they’re cut!
Darwin tulips are perhaps best noted for their large flower size and vibrant colouration. When crossbred with Single Early cultivars, you get Triumph Tulips: as their name suggests, they’re one of the best tulip varieties in terms of having a perfect balance of beauty and practicality, with an enormous range of colourations, many of which boast a neat and sophisticated air that make a bold statement in the garden!
Our Tulip Recommendations
Dwarf tulips
Dwarf tulips’ short height makes them an ideal pick for patio pots and similar containers. Alternatively, they’re a good height to place at the front of a border, scatter through a rockery, or outline a shrub!
- ‘Red Riding Hood’ is a fan favourite: with simple-yet-gorgeous, variegated crimson petals and burgundy-striped foliage, the perfect addition to your spring garden.
- ‘Little Beauty’ is unusual in its shape, being more of a wide-open flower than a traditional cup-shaped tulip. Its outer petals are a lovely magenta-rose colour, with a beautiful blue centre.
Lily flowering tulips
Lily-flowering tulips are somewhat later bloomers and have taller, slender stems (around 50cm-70cm tall), and their gorgeous shape and a wide variety of colours make them popular as cut flowers or as part of a bouquet. Alternatively, place them as the centrepiece of a tall container.
- The stunning ‘Marilyn’ bears white and red petals that almost look like they have been painted.
- And for an effective single colour, ‘Merlot’ produces waxy, wine-red goblets which make a strong statement on their own, or alongside another coloured tulip.
Darwin tulips
Darwin hybrid tulips are especially large-flowering and tall, sturdy and long-lasting.
- ‘Daydream’ is a sunshine-y variation, with its younger petals blooming in a lemon yellow, but ageing beautifully into a warm, glowing orange!
- ‘Pink Impression’ bares blushing pink petals with a soft feathering of different shades. Its foliage has its own appeal too, with variegated leaves lined with gold.
- ‘Apeldoorn Elite’ burns bright with gold flowers streaked with ruby red.
- ‘Beauty of Apeldoorn’ has a striking scarlet-orange colouration, but is just as noteworthy due to its taller-than-average size and bold, lance-shaped foliage.
Triumph tulips
There are enough gorgeous cultivars of Triumph tulips to fill a garden all of their own! However, if you had to hear some potential picks for your garden, we’d recommend:
- ‘Jan Reus’, a great deep crimson bloom, that sits proudly on darkly stained stems. A dramatic and deep tulip for creating drama and depth
- ‘Cairo’ tulips are a burnt orange in colour, but their waxy sheen provides an unusual accent; in some lights, this flower can appear to have an almost metallic, brassy appearance
Tulip Bulbs FAQs
What is the best month to plant tulip bulbs?
Tulip bulbs need to be planted in autumn when the bulb is dormant and when the temperature starts to cool but isn’t yet freezing. Usually this will be around September - December, depending on the region you live in. After they are planted, they will bloom the following spring.
Will tulips grow back every year?
Tulips are technically perennials which means that they can return every year - however, due to the way some tulips have been bred (to be the most colourful and beautiful) some varieties will only flower for one year. We recommend planting new bulbs each year to ensure the best tulip display.
Can tulips be left in the ground all year?
Tulip bulbs can be left in the ground all year, ready to flower again the next spring. However, to help give your tulips the best chance of looking great the following year, we recommend deadheading your tulips after they have flowered to help them save as much energy as possible. Don’t cut back the foliage until it has turned yellow. If your garden gets a lot of rain, this can cause the bulbs to rot so we would recommend lifting the bulbs up, letting them dry out and storing them in a paper bag ready to be planted again in autumn.
How best to grow tulips?
The best choice for tulips in most situations is to plant them (at least 10 cm deep) in rows or clusters of 10-15, in a sunny spot with humus-rich, free-draining soil. Best planted in the late autumn months. Lily-flowering tulips, though tall, are not highly wind-resistance, so it’s important to plant them in a place protected by the wind.
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