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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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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
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
From a yellow base the petals open to flame orange and red giving you a real show. A great deer-proof variety that is perfect for naturalising.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 45cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
Sorbet peach/ pink petals this elegant tulip will flower early spring. Planted as in either a pastel themed border or alongside bold daffodils and fritillaria it will not be missed and hold its own!
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 45cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
These tall fluted petals are wonderfully coloured in a deep violet shade whilst standing proud on elegant flower stems. Once established the petals will open up and almost bend back on themselves.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
A deep maroon/ purple blooming tulip with a long flowering period. Preferring full sun or partial shade will naturalise over time.
- Category: Viridiflora
- Height: 50cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
These intense scarlet red blooms open up to almost crown-like blooms. The lily flowering tulip is a lovely addition to add as a focal point in beds or planted in pots for impact.
- Category: Lily Flowering
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Popular with avid gardeners and landscapers, this two-toned tulip appearing in late spring is such a delight. The beautiful cupped white petals are rippled with soft red stripes on the edges.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 55cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
A striking tulip, embellishing your garden with a combination of rich rose and soft pinks with primrose yellow base petals the Tom Pouce tulip is easily distinguished. Suitable for cut flowers, they can brighten rooms in your house along with your garden
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/ May
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
Our Mixed Double tulips offer a range of different coloured tulips. Perfect for those larger areas or landscaping to create swathes of colour easily.
- Category: Mixed Double
- Height (cm): 25-50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
A multi-tonal darwin variety, starting off yellow at the base with sunset tones fading to a deep red at the tips of the petals creating a stunning contrast to its deep green leaves.
- Category: Darwin
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
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
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
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
Beetroot purple blooms that almost have a varnish finish on the petals, make this tulip stand out and glisten in the spring sunshine. A great addition to add into borders or plant in bulk for maximum impact.
- Category: Triumph
- Height (cm): 50cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
Stunning voluptuous vivid pink petals form bowls of wonderful colour in early spring. Sure to bring joy and great presence to your beds and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height: 40cm
- Bulb Size: 12/14cm
- Blooms: April/May
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
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
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
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
Adding structure to borders and beds, this tall tulip variety has a classic shape with pure snow-white blooms. Ideal for planting as part of a colour scheme.
- Category: Single Late
- Height (cm): 70cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: May
With its beautiful double blooms opening in early April, the almost peony shaped flowers of the Monsella bring a welcome ray of sunshine. Their vibrant yellow and red petals create impact and form in pots and borders.
- Category: Double Early
- Height (cm): 30cm
- Bulb Size (cm): 12/14cm
- Blooms: April
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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