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Tulip, Single-Flowered Late Cottage cultivars

Spring-Flowering Bulb

Tulipa sp. single flowered late, cottage cultivars
Liliaceae Family

Cottage Tulips have tight, egg-shaped blooms in a wide array of colors and color variations. They may be a single color, or vividly marked with stripes, flames, feathers, or colored margins.

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Site Characteristics
Sunlight:
  • full sun

Soil conditions:

  • requires well-drained soil

Hardiness zones:

  • 4 to 7

Special locations:

  • outdoor containers
  • indoors as a houseplant - Can be forced inside for winter bloom.
Plant Traits

Lifecycle: perennial

Ease-of-care: easy

Height: 0.75 to 2.5 feet

Spread: 0.25 to 0.5 feet

Bloom time: late spring

Flower color:

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • indigo
  • violet
  • white
  • pink

Foliage color:

  • light green
  • medium green

Foliage texture: medium

Shape: upright

Shape in flower: flower stalks with flowers as cups

Blooms borne on upright flower stems.

Special Considerations
Special characteristics:
  • non-aggressive
  • non-invasive
  • not native to North America - Products of horticultural selection.
Special uses:
  • cut flowers
Growing Information
How to plant:

Propagate by division or separation - Plant the bulbs 5" beneath the soil surface in the fall. After the leaves have died back following flowering, dig up the bulbs and allow them to mature in a warm, dry location. In the fall, replant large bulbs, and place the smaller bulbs in a starting bed to mature. When enlarged, plant them in the garden.

Maintenance and care:
Remove faded flowers, and do not remove the foliage until it has yellowed and begun to die back (up to 6 weeks).

These tulips do not perform well in Zones 7 to 9. To grow in these Zones, purchase cold-treated bulbs and grow as annuals. A few cultivars are suited to perennial warmer growth.

More growing information: How to Grow Bulbs

Pests:
Slugs and snails
Aphids
Diseases:
Bulb rot
Root rot
Gray mold
Nematodes
Varieties
�Avignon�: 1 �� tall plants with blooms that are bright-red-brushed with pale greenish-white at the base on the outside, and orange-red with yellow basal marks and green tinted margins

�Balalaika�: 1 �� to 1 �� tall plants with bright red blooms with yellow basal marks on the inside.

�Baronesse�: 1 �� tall plants with white-margined rosy-red blooms flushed with white at the base. The insides of the petals are white with red feathering and yellow and pale blue basal splotching.

�Big Smile�: 2� tall, late-blooming plants with very bright yellow blooms.

�Clara Butt�: 1 �� tall late-blooming plants with deep peach-pink blooms.

�Cordell Hull�: 1� tall plants with showy red blooms marked with white flames.

�Dreamland�: 2� tall late-blooming plants with red blooms marked with cream colored flames. The inner sides of the petals are rosy red with white bases.

�Gander�: 2� tall, late-blooming plants with deep magenta blooms.

�Georgette�: 10� to 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with red-margined yellow blooms. Several blooms per plant.

�Greuze�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with violet blooms.

�Kingsblood�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with red blooms with deeper red margins.

�Magier�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with blue-purple-margined white blooms. Syn. Tulipa �Magician�.

�Maureen�: 2 �� tall, late-blooming plants with pure white blooms tinted with yellow-green at their bases.

�Menton�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with pink blooms faintly striped with orange at their margins. The bases are yellow/white, with green markings, and the inner sides of the petals are orange-red with white veining.

�Pink Diamond�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with pale-pink-margined pink blooms. The insides of the petals are bright pink with yellow bases.

�Queen of Night�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with very dark, almost black, purple blooms.

�Reknown�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with rose-margined red blooms, with yellow bases rimmed with blue.

�Sorbet�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with cream-based, pale pink blooms. The inner sides of the petals are white with red flames.

�Union Jack�: 1 �� tall, late-blooming plants with rosy-red flamed white blooms, with white bases edged in blue.