Plant tulip bulbs from October to mid-December, once the weather has cooled. Until then, store them somewhere cool, dry and safely away from mice and squirrels.
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Tulip
'El Niño'
Spring will be spicy with the fiery flowers of Tulip 'El Niño'! Come rain or shine, you can count on this one to be a blaze of exotic warmth in late spring, illuminating your late-spring displays and being the bold contrast among cooler-coloured flowers like purple and blue. This late spark will ignite in May and put piquancy into your planting schemes, welcoming the start of summer with fresh flair and warm tones. The spirited single-late Tulip 'El Niño' offers an element of surprise too; each bloom is formed of elegantly pointed petals but no two flowers are the same, every petal is uniquely patterned with flame-like streaks in varying levels of red, yellow and orange.
Plant Tulip 'El Niño' in borders or pots in autumn and look forward to a big and bright show next spring. If your colour scheme is already on the fiery side, this tulip will happily fit to a hot planting scheme. Or, combine Tulip 'El Niño' with equally intense colours such as deep purple, blue, yellow and spots of magenta pink to create a ‘jewel’ planting scheme. As with all tulips, they’re very easy to grow and offer such a fantastic reward. You can achieve high impact, professional-looking display and really all it takes is to get your Tulip 'El Niño' bulbs planted in your garden in autumn.
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Choose full sun or partial shade. Improve heavy soil with organic matter and horticultural grit. For containers, use peat-free multipurpose compost with good drainage.
Plant bulbs pointed side upwards, 15–20cm deep and around 10cm apart. You can leave a little more space between them in borders.
Water once after planting to settle the soil. Border-grown tulips rarely need further watering, but containers should be kept lightly moist and never waterlogged.
Remove faded flowers, then allow the foliage to yellow and die back naturally. This helps the bulbs store energy for the following year.
- Botanical name
- Tulipa 'El Niño'
- Tulip group
- Single late (5)
- Flower colour
- Yellow, pink, peach, salmon, orange
- Bulb size
- 12/+
- Established height
- 50-70cm
- Established spread
- 10-20cm
- Growing skill
- Easy to grow
- Habit
- Upright
- Hardiness
- Fully hardy
- Leaf colour
- Green
- Mouse resistant
- No
- Plant spacing
- 60 bulbs per m2
- Pollinator friendly
- No
- Position
- Sheltered
- Rabbit resistant
- No
- Scented
- No
- Soil acidity
- Any
- Soil moisture
- Free draining
- Soil type
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Loam
Sandy
Stony
Multipurpose compost
Loam-based compost - Suitable for
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Pots
Large containers
Borders
Cottage gardens
Low maintenance gardens
Cut flower gardens - Sunlight
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Full sun
Partial shade - Toxicity
-
Harmful if eaten
Skin/eyes irritant - Years to establish
- 1st year
Good for cutting
Perfect for pots
Thrives in full sun
Fully hardy
Packed in paper
Low maintenance
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