Gardening at home with Sarah | The best tulips at Perch Hill
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Tulip 'Queen Of Night'
The classic luscious black tulip with a wonderful satin texture. More
| 15 organic bulbs 261421-15 | £11.50 |
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| 15 bulbs 261072-15 | £7.95 |
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| 30 bulbs 261072-30 | £14.95 |
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The classic luscious black tulip with a wonderful satin texture. Tulip 'Queen Of Night' is reliable, long-flowering and with a good reappearance rate year after year – a stalwart of the spring garden.
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| Genus | Tulipa |
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Single Late Single-flowered cultivars, mainly long-stemmed and late-flowering. Versatile with large oval to almost squarish flowers on strong stems. Click here for more information about tulip groups. |
| Variety | Queen of Night |
| Type | Perennial (grown as an annual) |
| Common Name | Tulip |
| Border Position | Container Garden |
| Bulb Size | 11/+ |
| Soil Type | Broad Tolerance |
| Scent | Unscented |
| Site | Full Sun |
| Moisture | Well-drained |
| Height | 60cm (24in) |
| Spacing | Plant pointy end up 10-15cm (4-6in) deep, 8cm (3in) apart. Layer bulbs to a depth of 25-30cm (10-12in) if room is tight. Remember to add plenty of grit if your soil is heavy. For containers, space bulbs 1-2cm (½-1in) apart if planting in a single layer, give them more room, 2-3cm (1-1½in) if planting in a bulb lasagne. |
| Sowing, Seeds, Planting | Plant outdoors October - December. |
| Care Tips | Don’t plant tulips until mid-late October. Plant pointy end up 10-15cm deep, 8cm apart in borders (less in containers). You can use a mycorrhizal Bulb Starter. After flowering leave the foliage to die back naturally if you want to reuse the bulbs. |
| Flowering | mid - late April |
| Vase Life | Tulips make supreme cut flowers. Strip the bottom leaves, tie the stems in paper to hold the stems ram-rod straight and leave to drink for at least 3 hours – or overnight. This helps keep the stems straight, but tulips do continue to grow after picking so curves may appear. |
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Advice & Videos
Protecting tulips from pests
Protect your tulips this spring from their main pests. This short guide shows you how to avoid tulip fire and squirrels.
Sarah's favourite tulip groups
Sarah talks about her favourite types of tulip groups.
Gardening at home with Sarah | May Tulips
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Gardening at home with Sarah | Tulips at Perch Hill
Watch as Sarah discusses her favourite varieties currently growing in the gardens at Perch Hill.
Planting numbers for bulbs in borders
A handy guide for how many alliums, narcissi, tulips, snowdrops and other bulbs to plant in your plot.
How to plant and grow tulips
Find out the best way to plant your tulip bulbs for a great display next spring.
How to plant tulips using a traditional bulb planter
On a particularly blustery autumn day in October, Sarah shows you how to plant tulips with a bulb planter.
How to grow tulips in container pots
Sarah shows you a few different ideas and techniques for planting tulips in container pots, for beautiful spring displays in your garden.
Understanding the 15 different tulip groups
The full list of the different tulip groups, with a little specification, as well as an example. We hope from this you can learn a bit more to help...
A guide through the tulip trial beds at Perch Hill
Sarah guides you through the new tulip varieties she is trialling from her most recent trip to the Netherlands (Hortus Bulborum, Keukenhof). She...
Sarah's blog: The Tulip Garden
We had our first light frost this morning, which has made me start thinking about planting tulips...
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Tulip 'Queen Of Night' reviews
Average based on 3 reviews
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Reviewed 2nd August 2019 by Bernice Delivery fine. Unfortunately mice, (?), dug down and ate most of them completely or damaged them to a point beyond which they could recover. Will dust bulbs with baby powder before planting next time and possibly net the pots. |
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Reviewed 11th July 2019 by Hello Patricia I planted rather late but they still flowered well. |
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Reviewed 10th July 2019 by Hello Ann On the whole, the bulbs I purchased from you did very well, but some of the Queen of the Night suffered from the enormous amount of rain we had just after planting. |
