tulips

Pastel-coloured tulips are like cashmere jerseys - luxurious, comforting, and quietly stylish.

These green-flashed tulips grow back year after year, flower for ages, have excellent weather resistance (crucial if there is endless rain) and last brilliantly in the vase. I’ve now had all 3 reappearing in my garden for over 10 years which is pretty remarkable. They do fine in sun or shade. a Mid-April-May. H.45cm

260345 45 bulbs (15 of each) £35.50 90 bulbs (30 of each) £59.95

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One of the things I love most about tulips is how they push on into the end of spring, like with this strawberry mousse collection. If you're thinking of planning a spring party or just want abundant flowers for the house, this is the collection for you.

a April-May. H.60cm 261757 70 bulbs (10 of each) £72.95

A tulip that’s been treasured, loved, and grown for many years, but has been difficult to find. We have discovered a new supplier, so here — excitingly — is this wonderful, rippling, ruffled, duchess of a tulip, due a great come-back with the current passion for vintage 1970s tones.

a April-May. H.45cm 260853 15 bulbs £11.95 30 bulbs £18.95

Scented

Exotic and extraordinary, I love this shorter variety arranged in almost any vase with spring blossom or lilac. It has variegated leaves too. a April-May. H.30cm

260917 15 bulbs £11.95

30 bulbs £21.50

‘Clearwater’

This is a swan of a tulip, pure, elegant, and strong, with an undoubtable presence; nothing fey here.

a April-May. H.60cm

261480 15 bulbs £13.95

30 bulbs £22.95

‘Crème

A double, softly scented tulip, which looks as rose-like as any tulip you’ll find. a April. H.45cm 261591 15 bulbs £11.50 30 bulbs £19.95

‘Dreamer’

When this came into flower, every one of us said if picked and put in a vase with no foliage, we’d have sworn the flowers were from a peony. This truly is a tulip in a peony disguise. a April. H.45cm 261703 10 bulbs £11.95

‘Apricona’ P SINGLE

I fell in love with this longflowering, soft, apricot tulip. It’s a reliable perennial variety, coming back year-on-year. a April-May. H.45cm 261665 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £16.95

A tulip mix in soft vintage silk, faded colours which I absolutely love. ‘La Belle Epoque’ is one of the showiest tulips you’ll ever see, and the centrepiece of this calm and beautiful collection. a April-May. H.60cm

260940 15 bulbs (5 of each) £21.50

30 bulbs (10 of each) £35.95

Highly scented

‘Silk Road’ DOUBLE EARLY

With its lovely soft, aromatic scent, we fell in love with this tulip last spring. Every flower slightly different, with the lightest stipples of deep pink over white. a April. H.45cm 261608 15 bulbs £13.95

30 bulbs £22.95

‘Rejoice’ TRIUMPH

Feathered and veined with the finest pink lines over its creamy bridal beauty. a April-May. H.45cm 261474 15 bulbs £8.95

30 bulbs £14.95

‘Wyndham’ DOUBLE LATE

One of the truly grand tulips, smelling of rich sweet dessert wine, with an almost pure 17th century look to it, yet it’s brand-new. a April-May. H.45cm 261475 15 bulbs £13.50

30 bulbs £22.95

‘Apricot Foxx’ adds a softness to this rich and gloriously scented mix we had planted all the way down our drive at Perch Hill ten springs ago, and it’s super perennial, still flowering brilliantly, all these years later. a April. H.60cm

261107 45 bulbs (15 of each) £29.95 90 bulbs (30 of each) £49.95 a April. H.45cm

The most beautiful tulip in a soft-chalky orange. I saw this in a Dutch friend’s garden and just had to grow it.

261009 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £15.95

You won’t find any other tulip like this. The most incredible colour – coffee mousse, flushed with pink, with double flowers which last for weeks. a April-May. H.45cm

260860 15 bulbs £22.95

30 bulbs £36.95

If you want something that treads the middle ground between the soft and dramatic, this is the one. That balance here is perfect – and I absolutely love it. a April-May. H.45cm 261457 25 bulbs (5 of each) £28.95 50 bulbs (10 of each) £47.50

Shown here with Bronze Fennel, see website and wallflowers, see pages 41 and 42

Favourite Jade Vase

See page 15

Brilliantly early

‘Mystic van Eijk’ P DARWIN HYBRID

A truly lovely tulip in a soft and beautiful apricot and pink. Hugely recommended. a April. H.60cm

261045 15 bulbs £8.50

30 bulbs £13.95

This reminds me so much of a Renoir painting. Think billowing skirts, curvaceousness, wide-brimmed hats and softness. ‘Pink Star’ fools almost everyone into thinking she’s a peony. You can’t get more romantic than this. a April-May. H.60cm 261327 25 bulbs (5 of each) £26.95

Renoir Tulip Collection in a Gift Box 261558

25 bulbs

£32.95

‘White Valley’ syn ‘Exotic Emperor’ P DOUBLE EARLY

A double tulip, but the outer petals are more like green sepals than fully blown petals. It looks good for at least six weeks. a April. H.45cm 260676

15 bulbs £9.50

30 bulbs £14.95

These are put together with succession in mind, to flower from late March with ‘Salmon Impression’ to ‘Virichic’ in late April and early May, with ‘Green Star’ and ‘Très Chic’ in between. This will give you tulips to admire in pots or borders for a good eight-week stretch. a March-April. H.60cm 261043 40 bulbs (10 of each) £29.95

80 bulbs (20 of each) £49.95

Inspired by a parterre at Chatsworth which the late duchess filled with forget-me-nots as a background for the most flamboyant and joy-filled tulips she could find, this was one of our favourite tulips shows at Perch Hill last spring. This collection includes 30 bulbs (15 of each) to fill 2 x 30cm pots or one large pot or patch, (as is shown here). a Mid-April-May. H.60cm 261756 30 bulbs (15 of each) £23.95 60 bulbs (30 of each) £39.95

I know I go on about wallpapers, but we’ve had a Sanderson pink and green floral wallpaper in our guest bedroom here now for ten years and I love it. It gave me the inspiration for this very long-flowering, high performing, new classic in our soft and cool palette. a April-May. H.60cm 261687 20 bulbs (5 of each) £23.95 60 bulbs (15 of each) £52.50

We had this soft and beautiful, scented mix of tulips and narcissus all around our lawn last spring, and I picked and picked and picked. That’s why it’s called the Bumper Border Bulb Mix. It’s very perennial too. a April-May. H.45cm

261122 60 bulbs (15 of each) £48.50

120 bulbs (30 of each) £79.95

Very early to flower and incredibly perennial. It’s also super tall, with huge flowers. Look closely and you’ll see that the petals have the finest outline of red, with the softest markings to their outer surface. a March-April. H.60cm

261762 15 bulbs £11.95

30 bulbs £19.95 a Late March-April. H.30cm

A fantastic, large, creamy tulip, perfect for early spring picking and brilliant for pots. One of my long-standing favourites because it flowers earlier than most.

260238 15 bulbs £9.50

30 bulbs £15.95

See our website for despatch times a Late April-May. H.45cm

A classic green and ivory tulip, that's reliably perennial. A really long-standing cottage garden plant.

260243 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £15.95

60 bulbs £29.95

P SINGLE EARLY

A subtle beauty, washed with silver on the outside and apricot within. Very longflowering and very perennial. a April. H.45cm

260204 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £16.95

P TRIUMPH

A tall and classy primrose tulip, which flowers for 50% longer than most others in my garden. a April-May. H.45cm

261014 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £17.50

You can’t get more feminine and romantic than this. With the blush-pink frilly knicker tulip, ‘Angelique’ all mixed in with the delicate, little, highly scented narcissus — unfortunately called ‘Xit’. This will make even the hard-hearted swoon. a April-May. H.45cm

261759 30 bulbs (15 of each) £21.95

I love white contrasted with coral or apricot, and this beautiful and subtle combination gives a good succession from mid to late spring. All three here are exceptionally perennial. a April-May. H.45cm

260846 60 bulbs (20 of each) £32.95 120 bulbs (40 of each) £57.95

Pale collections are brilliant for lighting up the shade. Go online to discover more. Shown here with Cardoon leaves and

If you want an absolute cracker of a vase filler, Swan Lake makes the most incredible display on a dining room table – big, pure, and gobsmacking when you come into the room. a April-May. H.60cm

261459 40 bulbs (5 of each) £39.95

80 bulbs (10 of each) £59.95

Bring some wow factor into your garden with these super-dazzlers.

‘Unique de France’ ‘Sarah Raven’ ‘Mariette’ ‘Ballerina’

I love this swathe of tulips growing in the Oast Garden. The contrast of brilliant boiled sweet colours is uplifting whenever I walk by. All four here have the elegant shape and perenniality of the lily-flowered group; they’re some of the best and look fantastic in pots too. a April-May. H.45cm

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20 bulbs (5 of each) £19.50

40 bulbs (10 of each) £31.95

60 bulbs (15 of each) £39.95

Glowing, glorious colours like the very best African sunset, this is a fabulous mix of tulips and wallflowers that reigned supreme in the Oast Garden last spring. ‘Cadance’ is a new variety, and if you love orange like I do, you’ll love it and its sunny flower companions. Includes 10 x bulbs of ‘Attila Graffiti’ and ‘Louvre Orange’. 15 x bulbs of ‘Cadance’ and 15 x jumbo seedlings of Wallflower ‘Vulcan’. a April-May. H.45cm 201375 50 items £49.95

A beautiful orange tulip with a freesia-like fragrance - an absolute must in my garden. a April-May. H.60cm 260206 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £16.95

60 bulbs £32.50

‘Campbell’

LILY-FLOWERED DOUBLE

Elegant, tall, and SCENTED. We fell on this, just like ‘Ballerina’ but double, which means it flowers for almost twice as long. A very exciting brand new tulip. a April-May.

H.50cm

261769 10 bulbs £9.50

15 bulbs £15.95

‘Chato’ DOUBLE EARLY

An invaluable tulip for its very early flowering and sumptuous peony-like blooms. I have had so many letters raving about this early tulip. a Late March-April. H.30cm 260698 15 bulbs £10.95

30 bulbs £18.95

‘Golden Dynasty’ P TRIUMPH

The best of the turmericyellows, washed with a splash of harissa, this looks like a Moroccan beauty to brighten any corner. Shown here underplanted with wallflowers see page 41, it’s very early too. a March. H.45cm 261764 15 bulbs £11.95

30 bulbs £19.95

Coppery-bronze, sumptuous, exotic, and beautiful. No more superlatives to add!

Subtle scent. a April. H.60cm 260921 15 bulbs £11.95

30 bulbs £19.95 new

‘Orange Dynasty’ TRIUMPH

Calm peach-melba, wonderful in a vase on its own or with tulips of different palettes, either the brights or carefully chosen green-whites. Newly bred but set to become a classic. a April. H.45cm 261765 15 bulbs £11.95

30 bulbs £19.95

‘Ballerina’

‘Request’

The perfect collection of tulips for the brilliant-coloured gardenzingy, cheerful, and long-flowering. ‘Ballerina’ and ‘Request’ have lovely scent. a April-May. H.60cm

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15 bulbs (5 of each) £16.95

30 bulbs (10 of each) £25.95

45 bulbs (15 of each) £34.95

For our Jewel Vases, see page 58 and our website

This combination of shapes and colours reminds me of driving through the tulip fields of Holland with the showiest polychrome rows stretching as far as the eye can see. An undiluted celebration of the tulip and hard to resist. Like a mini Keukenhof, I filled our whole cutting garden with these and picked to my heart’s content, in fact, I still am five years on. They are good, reliably perennial forms. a April-May. H.60cm 261620 60 bulbs (10 of each) £44.95

90 bulbs (15 of each) £59.95

‘Orange Marmalade’ TRIUMPH

If I was to select one tulip from our discoveries from our trip to Holland and trials at Perch Hill last spring, it would be ‘Orange Marmalade’. Super perennial, and their green flash makes them last more like a leaf than a flower in the vase. a April-May. H.45cm 261766 15 bulbs £10.50

30 bulbs £15.95

‘Orange Princess’ DOUBLE LATE a Late April-May. H.30cm

A double form of ‘Prinses Irene’ with the same beautiful sunset mix of colours, but more of them.

261011 15 bulbs £14.50

30 bulbs £26.95

‘Orca’ DOUBLE EARLY

An Ascot hat of a tulip, fabulously vulgar and undeniably lovely with short stems and huge flowers. A complete mood-lifter and very early too! a March-April. H.30cm

261485 15 bulbs £14.50

30 bulbs £25.95

‘Prinses Irene’ TRIUMPH

The colours of a sunset, with elegant blue-green, silvery leaves. A classic, and all round brilliant tulip. a Mid-April-May.

H.30cm

260237 15 bulbs £12.95

30 bulbs £22.50

120 bulbs £79.95

‘Queen Jewel’ DOUBLE EARLY

Even more dazzling than ‘Chato’ (page 21), this flowers for a good five weeks, like all the doubles, and earns its keep five times over. I truly love it. a April. H.45cm

261606 15 bulbs £11.50

30 bulbs £19.50

‘Veronique

TRIUMPH

Deeply classy and rich, with a lovely perfume. It flowers late, to keep the garden colourful into May. a April-May. H.45cm

260969 15 bulbs £7.95

30 bulbs £12.95

‘Alison

Last year we had a trial here of so-called peonyflowered tulips, the double earlies and lates. I LOVE an early tulip and this new variety, photographed here in the second week of April, sumptuous for a pot, border or vase, comes into flower well before the middle of spring. a April-May. H.30cm 261763 15 bulbs £12.95 30 bulbs £22.50

‘Little

This pretty species tulip has exquisite bright pink flowers with deep blue centres and a delicious scent. a March. H.15cm 260472 15 bulbs £6.95 30 bulbs £11.50 60 bulbs £19.95

One of my favourite tulip duets, rich carmine ‘Attila Graffiti’ matched by the base of the petal of ‘Louvre Orange’, with a vermilion contrast at its petal edge. If you like your colours strong and saturated this is the pair for you. a April-May. H.45cm 261331 30 bulbs (15 of each) £19.95

‘Margarita’

This tulip really wants to be a peony, doing everything it can to double up and almost outdo any rival nearby. Excellent garden and vase life, this is the newly bred, zappy, and unique purple-pink and top of our trials. a April. H.45cm 261768 15 bulbs £9.95 30 bulbs £15.95

Tall, elegant, Champs-Élysées models of the tulip world. This catwalk collection flowers long and late. a April-May. H.60cm

261463 60 bulbs (20 of each) £43.95

90 bulbs (30 of each) £59.95

A classic Sarah Raven mix of purple and orange to bring joy to any corner of your garden. The two oranges are highly scented and I love the fluted shape of request, in contrast to ‘Uncle Tom’ and ‘Negrita Parrot’. a April-May. H.45cm 261312 20 bulbs (5 of each) £21.50

40 bulbs (10 of each) £34.95

‘Menton’ SINGLE LATE

More statuesque than most tulips, with marvellous coralpink flowers in a great, goblet shape. a Late April-May. H.60cm

260712 15 bulbs £10.50

30 bulbs £17.95

‘Pieter

Rich scarlet petals, toned down with a wash of crimson, and a beautiful upright shape giving this tulip great glamour and pizzazz. a April-May. H.60cm

261734 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £15.95

A classic in our Cutting Garden here, invaluable for flowering early, and long, and being very perennial. We grow it with a carpet of polyanthus, a good combination for the garden and a container. a April. H.60cm

261610 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £15.95

One of the most vibrant coloured tulips but most unique for its foliage. The leaves on this tulip look as if they have been buffed with silver polish. A healthy, longflowering perennial. a April. H.45cm

261613 15 bulbs £8.50

30 bulbs £12.95

‘Purple Sensation’

The best all-round allium for the garden and for flower arranging. It starts to flower at the end of the tulips in midMay and will gently self-sow. a May-June. H.90cm 260007 15 bulbs £9.95

30 bulbs £17.95

60 bulbs £32.95

90 bulbs £47.95