A Season for Tulips - Tulips - Ideas

Variety of Tulips
Perhaps the only thing more beautiful than a tulip in the spring garden is a densely planted display or the flowers intermingled with low blooming plants. It's an even more captivating sight when that display includes a selection of tulip cultivars — some a single splash of color, others streaked, spattered, or edged.


A Season for Tulips - Tulips - Ideas

Lilac Wonder
Enamored is a word long associated with tulips, ever since they were first cultivated as early as 1,000 A.D. — not in present-day Holland, as many people think, but in Central Asia and Turkey. The Turks introduced this novelty, originally a native wildflower, to the Dutch in 1593. The Dutch became so enamored of the flames of color and uniqueness of blooms that tulips became the obsession of the 1630s. During the peak of the Dutch tulip craze, a single bulb of some cultivars took on the value of an entire estate.

A Season for Tulips - Tulips - Ideas

Vase of Pink Tulips
Creating arrangements is easy with tulips, whether they're featured as a single color, in a cheerful mix of tone on tone blooms, or in combinations of contrasting hues. Arrange tulips in a formal vase, or tuck them into a mason jar and allow them to drape gracefully.