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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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A deeper violet at the base of the petals, these distinctive blooms open up to reveal pastel shades of lilac. Popular in cottage gardens the softer shades look stunning next to Lavenders, Alliums and Star of Bethlehemem.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Pointed tipped blooms on strong stems, the carmine rose to deep pink flowers are a beautiful sight in early spring. The pop of colour is a welcome sight and add great focal points in planted beds.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 35cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Delicate crisp white petals fading into a sunshine yellow base, these smaller flowering tulips are perfect for pots and borders as they also produce a light sweet fragrance.
- Category: Fosteriana
- Height: 25cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: March/ April
Stunning copper petals that open up to large magnificent blooms flowering late April into early May.
- Category: Double Late
- Height: 35cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
Carrying a strong fragrance, these delightful double blooms open out to reveal soft creamy petals with delicate pink dustings. The colours will deepen with age and are a perfect variety for adding into a cottage garden theme.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 10/11cm
- Blooms: April
Bold and beautiful brilliant red flowers that have amazingly frilled edged petals. This decorative variety is well suited to being grown in pots so you can show off their beauty or amongst your borders to bring a splash of colour.
- Category: Fringed
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
With defined fringed petals, these rich striking yellow flowers look amazing in window boxes, formal beds or even as cut flowers to add to a bouquet with their long tall stems.
- Category: Fringed
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
Striking fuschia-red petals melting down to light green, sturdy stems. These elegant Viridiflora Tulips add boldness to any border and garden with their slender fluted blooms.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 55cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
This triumphant triumph tulip variety, Don Quichotte stands proudly amongst planted borders or also suitable for pots. The rose-pink blooms have a purple sheen and will keep on performing year after year.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
The beautiful petals of the Dordogne tulip appear in a soft pinky orange with tinged yellow edges. Bringing joy year after year these wonderful tulips are a great addition for any garden landscape, pots or containers.
- Category: Single
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
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
With its creamy yellow blooms, this popular variety is perfect for adding opulence and delicate colour to borders and beds.
- Category: Exotic
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Sunset shades, the petals on the Flair tulip start as raspberry red fading to the edges to a sunset yellow/ orange. A beautiful bloom these early tulips and more suited to being planted near the front of borders and beds.
- Category: Single Early
- Height (cm): 35cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Purple-painted petals against the ivory tips make this a stand-out variety. Suitable for landscaping, pots, beds and borders, make this bicolour tulip a real allrounder.
- Category: Rembrandt, Triumph
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
The most striking bulb in our range! Fierce, bold and unique, this Tulip is a real eye-catcher - tall fluted fringed petals, swirls of red and sun-set yellow which fade to a creamy white with age.
- Category: Parrot
- Height: 60cm
- Bulb Size: 12 +cm
- Blooms: early May
A stunning tulip that will open in early spring to reveal multiple shades of white, cream and rose pink which then fade into a raspberry pink.
- Category: Fosteriana
- Height (cm): 40cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Ideal for attracting bees and butterflies, this later flowering tulip has stunning yellow and green striped petals.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Lightly fragranced these bowl-shaped blooms open to reveal rippled colours of creamy white and raspberry pink flowers. Like candy floss from the fair they are a pure delight in any garden!
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Beautiful double-flowering tulips, the peony type flower heads are a gorgeous two-tone of soft yellows and orange pinks that are reminiscent of the amazing sunsets we have in early summer.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
A dwarf tulip variety, these early flowering tulips are ideal for rockeries and edges of borders, to add an early pop of colour in the spring. Opening up to bright yellow and red blooms they are a little delight.
- Category: Dwarf Rockery
- Height (cm): 20cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12+cm
- Blooms: March/ April
A golden yellow, classically shaped tulip, the Golden Apeldoorn is a standard and well-favoured variety amongst landscapers and garden designers.
- Category: Darwin Hybrid
- Height (cm): 60cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: early May
Striking red and yellow flamed petals, this fantastic new variety is great for naturalising as well as being deer proof. Preferring full sun, they will establish well in borders or under grass, flowering early April.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Wonderfully fringed crisp white flower heads, these stunning and unique tulips are a delight to behold. Their unique frilled petals make these great to add to landscaped areas and pots in particular.
- Category: Fringed
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
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
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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