The wonderful tulip blossom is coming to an end far too quickly. As soon as the early varieties have unfurled their flower cups at the end of March/beginning of April, the festival is already over. Prudent hobby gardeners took precautions and planted tulip varieties that flowered in May in the autumn of the previous year. You can find out what these are here.
Viridiflora tulips flower later in the year than their relatives
Viridiflora Tulips
Literally translated, her name means 'with green flowers'. Anyone who takes a look at the following magnificent varieties will interpret this designation as an understatement. In fact, these May tulips wow us with green flamed flower cups, designed on Mother Nature's painter's easel.
- Artist impresses with salmon-red flamed flowers from mid-May
- Esperanto makes May glow with bright red blooms streaked with green
- Spring Green also delights us in partial shade with its ivory colored flower cups
Parrot Tulips
With fringed, wavy, incised, spotted and mottled petals, these late tulips trump in the bed and on the balcony.
- Estella Rijnveld, a premium variety with wavy, ivory white and red marbled flower cups
- Black Parrot, a stunning tulip that captivates us with double fringed flowers of dark purple
- Orange Favorite exudes an intoxicating scent from fringed blossoms
Peony-flowered Tulips
In May, double flowers reminiscent of peonies unfold on their strong stems. The opulent tulips in late onion forcing are very popular.
- Black Hero, the mysterious, dark beauty with lush double blue-black flowers
- La Belle Epoque lets us sink into romantic dreams with orange-pink-apricot-coffee-brown flowers
- Lilac Perfection boasts huge buds, up to 10cm in diameter
Lily-flowered Tulips
If you are looking for elegant tulips with a flowering period in May, you will find what you are looking for with lily-flowered Tulipa. Graceful flowers float on stalks that are up to 50 cm high, and their pointed leaves spread out wide.
- With its red and yellow flowers, Fly Away looks from afar as if the bed were on fire
- Flashback sets eye-catching accents in beds, vases and pots with bright yellow, pointed flowers
- White Triumphator decoratively rounds off every spring border with its pure white flowers
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Tulips can be found in every imaginable color nuance - except for the color blue. For centuries, breeders have been trying to produce blue tulips - so far without convincing success. The varieties 'Blue Parrot' and 'Blue Diamond' come closest to the wish. Viewed objectively, however, they are purple to purple hybrids.