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Orange Tulips
The brightest bulbs: It's time to start planning for a colourful spring
But it isn’t all plain sailing. Colours can be strong and uncompromising and if you plant the wrong combination, your tulip display will have the allure of a scrofulous punk rocker. You need to get your timing right, too. Plant early and late varieties together and the dying flowers of one will ruin the looks of the other.
ON THE LEVELWith containers, you can plant tulips at different levels to double the flower power. A 25cm pot, for example, will carry twenty bulbs, planted in two or even three layers. Despite the different depths, they’ll all flower together and at the same height. I prefer conventional terracotta pots but you can use anything from formal Versailles planters to disused lavatory pans. Any container that drains freely will do for tulips.
In small pots, I prefer to grow tulips on their own but in big containers, companion plants make a richer display. Forget-me-nots are the most dependable – I snitch self-sown freebies from around my garden and replant them with the bulbs. Yellow tulips like ‘Golden Apeldoorn,’ the ivory ‘Alabaster’ or gentle pink ‘Esther’ all go sweetly with forget-me-nots.
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