Tulip 'Little Beauty'
Orders placed before 1 September 2024
You can expect your order in August/September
Orders placed 1 September - 15 October 2024
You can expect your order in September/October
Orders placed 16 October - 15 December 2024
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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Description
Get the tulip season off to a bright start with this early-flowering gem, Tulip 'Little Beauty'. Botanical tulips like this mini marvel are often eager to get started, kick-starting the tulip season with a bang from as early as March. Good things come in a small packages, and these tulips are usefully small (great for pots and other little nooks) and of course amazingly beautiful with vivid pink petals and lavender-blue eyes. What’s extra special about species tulip 'Little Beauty' is that it is reliably perennial, so it will return every year and eventually start to multiply!
Combine Tulip 'Little Beauty' with other botanical tulips like Tulip 'Little Princess', 'Shogun' and 'Coerulea Oculata Alba' to create a jewel-like scheme in pots, borders or gravel areas. Typically flowering from late March/early April, they also make fantastic companions for hyacinths and muscari. Tulip ‘Little Beauty’ is easy to grow and doesn’t require anything in terms of maintenance once the bulbs are planted in the right spot. When planted in the ground, they will look after themselves and can be left to their own devices. When planted into pots, give them some fresh compost each year or plant out into the garden for year two.
Since botanical tulips had to evolve to survive in situations that may be less ideal, they are often tougher and easier to grow than hybrids.
Key features
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Perfect for pots
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Comes back every year
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Fragrant
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Naturalising
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Thrives well in full sun
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Packed in paper bags
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Low maintenance
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RHS Award (AGM)
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Fully hardy
Specs & details
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Botanical name
Tulip 'Little Beauty'
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Tulip group
Species or Botanical (15)
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Flower colour
Hot pink, blue, white
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Bulb size
6/8
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Established height
10-20cm
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Established spread
10-20cm
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Plant spacing
100 bulbs per m2
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Leaf colour
Green
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Habit
Upright
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Life cycle
Perennial
Naturalising -
Hardiness
Fully hardy
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Years to establish
1st year
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Sunlight
Full sun
Partial shade -
Position
Sheltered
Exposed -
Suitable for
Pots
Large containers
Borders
Meadows
Gravel gardens
Coastal gardens
Rockery
Cottage gardens
Low maintenance gardens -
Soil acidity
Any
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Soil moisture
Free draining
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Soil type
Loam
Sandy
Stony
Multipurpose compost
Loam-based compost -
RHS Award (AGM)
Yes
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Growing skill
Easy to grow
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Scented
Yes
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Pollinator-friendly
No
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Mouse resistant
No
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Rabbit resistant
No
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Deer resistant
No
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Toxicity
Skin/eyes irritant
Harmful if eaten
Plant calendar
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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- Planting
- Flowering
Useful information
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Plant your Tulip 'Little Beauty' bulbs from mid to late autumn
Plant in borders or containers in sun or partial shade
Plant your bulbs two to three times as deep as the bulb is high
Space the bulbs about twice the bulb diameter apart
Place the Tulip 'Little Beauty' bulbs with the pointed side facing upwards
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Orders placed before 1 September 2024
You can expect your order in September 2024Orders placed 1 September - 15 October 2024
You can expect your order in October 2024Orders placed 16 October - 15 December 2024
You can expect your order within 10 business days
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