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 sylvestris
wild tulip
Indulge your garden with dazzling golden swathes of beautiful lemon-scented tulip flowers during spring which will return for a repeat show year after year. Tulip sylvestris is the original wild tulip and therefore very reliable. Thriving in most conditions, whether planted in borders or containers, it will provide a beautifully uncomplicated display of colour between March and April with the minimum of fuss. Perfect for naturalising, once you’ve planted this simple but elegant variety in autumn, it’ll put on a fabulous show the following spring and then reward you by coming back each year afterwards in larger and more striking clumps.
This easy-to-grow and unfussy variety thrives in almost any sunny location. Tulip sylvestris is an excellent choice for growing in borders, rockeries and gravel gardens and can even cope with being planted in rough grass, sitting perfectly within a lovely wild or natural space. The refined flowers are simply chic with dainty pointed petals in a rich buttercup-yellow colour, sometimes with a nodding habit as well as upright for a graceful, informal variation.
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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 sylvestris
- Tulip group
- Species or Botanical (15)
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Bulb size
- 7/+
- Established height
- 30-50cm
- Established spread
- 10-20cm
- Growing skill
- Easy to grow
- Habit
- Upright
- Hardiness
- Fully hardy
- Leaf colour
- Green
- Mouse resistant
- No
- Plant spacing
- 100 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
Gravel gardens
Cottage gardens
Low maintenance gardens
Cut flower Gardens
Meadows - Sunlight
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Full sun
Partial shade - Toxicity
-
Skin/eyes irritant
Harmful if eaten - Years to establish
- 1st year
Good for cutting
Perfect for pots
Thrives in full sun
Perennial
Fully hardy
Packed in paper
Naturalising
Low maintenance
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