Description
When asked to explain what I mean by unusual bulbs, this plant is often my example. A blue and white, fragrant Tulip, just 20 cm tall that is easily grown, but which very few people know even exists.
This really is a fabulous plant; the petals are of good texture and are pure white, the base has a thin black bordered, deep steel-blue patch and the whole is lightly fragrant of violets. It flowers early in the tulip season, long before the “crowd” and is a very distinguished and attractive plant.
Easily pleased given good drainage and sunshine and fully hardy. Loam based soils with good drainage are best and feeding will help to build the bulbs up for the next season. They like to be dry in summer but not “baked” hard.
Originally from Iran, this is an old, long cultivated Dutch stock.
