Eagle Lake Nurseries Gardening Tips

October 2004

Late Flowering Tulips

With a little bit of work in the autumn months, your tulips will herald the gardening season in spring with dazzling color. Use some late spring tulips, which bloom in the landscape scene when weather conditions may not be damaging to flowers.

Here are some of the excellent late flowering tulip varieties available this year at our garden center.

Darwin Tulips
Blossoms are large and showy on sturdy stems
  • Apeldoorn Elite- 55cm tall with red flowers edged in yellow.
  • Apeldoorn - 55cm tall with cherry-red blooms.
  • Oillioules- 55 cm tall flowers are dark pink edged with rose.
  • Black Diamond - 70 cm tall flowers are deep black.
  • Blue Amiable- 60 cm flowers are velvet blue.
  • Florissa- 55 cm flowers are a glossy deep pink.
    • Parrot Tulips
    Petals are ruffled
  • Blue Parrot - 55cm tall with velvet blue blossoms.
  • Black Parrot- 50 cm tall with deep black flowers.
    • Lily Flowering Tulips
    Petals have pointed tips. Very elegant and unusual
  • Akita- 50 cm tall deep red flowers with ivory edges and a blue center.
  • Ballerina- 55 cm tall with a tangerine-orange fragrant blossom.
    • Plant tulips to a depth of three times the height of the bulb. Use bone meal as a good source of phosphorus for root development. After planting, bulbs require a minimum of three weeks to form the roots they need to survive through winter. Water long enough so that the moisture will reach the bulbs to the depth they are planted.

    Jennifer Seafoot
    Eagle Lake Nurseries Ltd.