Whether in red, yellow or orange - tulips look great in every colour. Depending on the flowering time, a distinction is made between early, middle and late tulips.
Over the centuries, countless varieties of tulips have been cultivated in Europe and Asia, and new varieties have also been bred, which is why we can now enjoy a colorful variety of well over a thousand varieties. So that you can enjoy the beauty of the tulips for a particularly long time, you should always plant a combination of early, middle and late tulips in your garden. For example, early tulips are single and double, medium tulips are Darwin and Triumph, and late tulips are single, double, fringed, or lily-like.
But when do the different types of tulips bloom, and which types of tulips are early, middle and late? We will explain this to you in more detail below.
Tulip varieties & their flowering times at a glance
❀ Early Tulips:
The single, early tulips bloom no later than April 21 and grow to an average height of between 25 and 30 centimeters, such as Beauty Queen, and Purple Prince.
Early, double tulips with a growth height of up to 35 centimeters are also included in this group. The latter usually have extremely impressive, mostly even two-colored calyxes (e.g. Monsella, Calimero, Belicia and Freeman).
❀ Medium Tulips:
In the case of the medium-sized tulips, which are mostly found in gardens - flowering from around April to early May - a distinction is made between the Darwin hybrid tulips and the 40 to 50 centimeter high triumphal tulips. The extremely robust triumphal tulips represent a cross between early and late tulips. These include Calgary, Seville, Pako, Falcon and Lydia.
The extremely tall (up to 70 centimetres) Darwin tulips, on the other hand, correspond to an original cross between cultivated and wild tulips. They are therefore usually offered in the flower colors red, yellow and orange, such as Apeldoorn and Garant.
❀ Late Tulips:
The grouping of late-blooming tulips (around May, some blooming until the beginning of June) spoils us with most ormost diverse varieties. These include the always extremely impressive parrot tulips, numerous pointed lily-like tulips and the fringed tulips.
Late flowering tulips include Companion, Menton, Florette, Ballad, Hamilton, Red Hat, Groenland, Foxtrot and many, many more. But the little ones like Juan, Corsage and Buddy are also included.