Autumn is the time to plant bulbs and perennials. Creative hobby gardeners seize this opportunity to imaginatively combine tulips. Browse through a selection of recommended planting partners for your spring garden.

Tulips can be combined with other plants as you wish

This is how tulips do it colorful in the spring bed

A single tulip here and there doesn't produce the massed blossom splendor that we hope for from the herald of spring. It is better if you combine different varieties in large tuffs. When the flower bulbs gather in groups of 10 to 12 specimens in a variety of color nuances and flower shapes, a breathtaking long-distance effect is created. For your inspiration we have put together these combinations:

  • Elegant: Lily-flowered Tulipa with purple 'Purple Dream', magenta, white-edged 'Ballade'
  • Nostalgia: combo of parrot and Rembrandt tulips: 'Blue Parrot', Carneval de Nice', 'Rem's Favourite', 'Black Parrot'
  • Romance: Flamed green, late flowering Viridiflora Tulipa with 'Green Spring', 'Artist', 'China Town', 'Esperanto'

Before planting, fill the flower bulbs in a bucket and mix thoroughly by hand.

Arranging tulips with similar bulb flowers - a selection

Tulips alone do not exude the intoxicating spring mood. Only in combination with adequate onion flowers does it succeed in perfection. These types of flowers are shortlisted:

  • Daffodil (Narcissus)
  • Grape hyacinth (Muscari azureum)
  • Anemone (Anemone blanda)
  • Snowglow (Chionodoxa luciliae)
  • Puschkinia (Puschkinia scilloides)
  • Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum)

Not to forget the classics, such as snowdrops (Galanthus), crocus (Crocus) and squill (Scilla siberica).

Decorative tete-a-tete with these perennials

Although most perennials are just about to start when tulips are in bloom, creative gardeners use their decorative leaf sprouting. The following summer beauties underline the tulip blossom with their foliage:

  • Cranesbill (Geranium)
  • Purple Bells (Heuchera)
  • Astilbe (Astilbe)
  • Funkie (Hosta)
  • Daylilies (Hemerocallis)

Furthermore, tulips contrast wonderfully with evergreen dwarf shrubs such as Mahonia (Mahonia) or Boxwood (Buxus). Against the backdrop of dark-leaved trees, Tulipa set impressive accents. The dark red barberry 'Atropurpurea' inspires in this company as well as the black and red semi-shrub loosestrife (Lysimachia) 'Firecracker'.

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While tulips and daffodils live harmoniously in the bed, this does not apply to the vase. Daffodils release a slimy substance into the flower water, which clogs the pathways in tulips. If you don't want to do without the dreamy appearance, briefly dip the stem ends of daffodils in hot water.

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