The primrose yellow flowers of the Species tulip ‘Batalinii Bright Gem’ are perfectly illuminated by warm spring sunshine, highlighting the streaks of amber and apricot which suffuse the petals. This dainty jewel features fine, silvery foliage, enhancing the brightness of the blooms. Despite their petite size and delicate leaves, Species tulips are resilient and truly perennial, happily naturalising amongst grass and in borders. ‘Batanii Bright Gem’ tulips are equally effective dotted in containers, where you will be able to admire their bantam beauty close at hand. Flowering slightly later than other Species varieties, this charming Heirloom tulip will extend your display throughout spring.

Otherwise known as the ‘golden lady tulip’, ‘Clusiana Cynthia’ is a petite, gilded beauty, exuding elegance and style. Flashes of raspberry red and chartreuse green are painted on a buttercup yellow background. Elongated, pointed buds open to fluted, star-shaped blooms on slender stems above fine foliage. Despite a refined appearance, this Species tulip is resilient and vigorous, boasting the accolade of an RHS Award of Garden Merit for reliability in the garden. These enchanting blooms are perfect for filling patio pots for an early display, and to dot amongst grass and borders for a tapestry of colour as the bulbs gradually naturalise.

Like a stick of striped seaside rock, the Species tulip ‘Clusiana Peppermintstick’ brings a sense of childlike, nostalgic delight. Eye-catching petals unfurl with an inner layer of cool white, enveloped by a band of cerise pink. Opening to a broad star on a sunny day, this animated botanical tulip bobs above fine, grass-like foliage. These bicolour blooms enliven container displays, borders, and lawns, where the bulbs will naturalise readily. This vigorous variety has earnt itself the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for its impressive, consistently reliable performance. Appearing mid-April, ‘Peppermintstick’ offers a sweet treat early in the season.

Like the lively country music of the same name, ‘Honky Tonk’ is an upbeat, sprightly tulip to put a spring in your step. Flutes of cheerful yellow blooms are blushed with soft pink, opening in the warmth of spring sunshine, and closing to a neat point by night. This Species variety multiplies well and is ideal for naturalising amongst grass, with its green-blue foliage featuring a delicately waved edge. A compact habit means these blooms are equally suited to brightening containers and edging borders. The RHS have honoured ‘Honky Tonk’ with an Award of Garden Merit, the seal of approval for garden performance.

A rare and refined gem, the Species tulip ‘Persian Pearl’ will be the jewel in the crown of your early spring display. Opulent, silken, cyclamen purple blooms are streaked with flashes of glistening silver. Perfectly formed, pointed buds burst open to reveal a heart of gold. The outer petals exhibit a lustrous sheen, like a pearl glinting in the light. This small treasure is ideal for filling pots, adorning rockeries, and dotting amongst grass where it will naturalise effortlessly. After the long, grey days of winter, ‘Persian Pearl’ offers luxurious colour and glamour early in the season.

Discovered growing in breath-taking swathes on the mountains of Crete, ‘Lilac Wonder’ is a sensational Species tulip. Misty lavender petals spread out to form a bowl-shaped star, disclosing a clearly demarcated, bold yellow heart. The perky, playful, diminutive blooms dance above ribbons of glossy foliage. This sun-loving variety is well suited to adorning rock gardens, filling gaps at the front of borders, dotting amongst the lawn, and packing into pots. A superb variety for naturalising, providing carpets of colour year after year, ‘Lilac Wonder’ has received an RHS Award of Garden Merit for dependability and exceptional garden performance.

Like a sweep of scarlet lipstick paired with a winning smile, the brilliant, vermillion blooms of ‘Linfolia’ are sure to turn heads. Pillar-box red buds unfurl to reveal an ebony centre, with shapely petals tapering to a narrow point. ‘Linfolia’, otherwise known as the flax-leaved tulip, perches atop narrow, glaucous foliage with strong, wavy edges. Flaunting a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit for its consistently high performance in the garden, this enthralling Species tulip naturalises eagerly to form bold clumps. This crimson femme fatale will be a striking addition to rockeries, lawns, borders, and container displays.

Growing wild in abundance on the mountains of Turkey, the blooms of ‘Little Beauty’ live up to their name. Radiant petals of cerise pink encircle a feathered, slate blue centre which blurs into a smudged white margin. Each ornate flower is a captivating work of art. Despite its delicate appearance, ‘Little Beauty’ is one of the most steadfastly perennial tulips and naturalises enthusiastically to form wonderful drifts of colour. Such reliability and vigour have earnt this botanical tulip the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit. A tremendous variety for planting in swathes amongst lawns, rockeries, and borders, and for bringing a touch of glamour to spring pots.

The petals of ‘Orphanidea Flava’ flash like a flickering flame, with a yellow base streaked with orange, bronze, and crimson flares. This multi-flowering Species tulip is ablaze with vibrant colour, dazzling with long-lasting blooms above lance-shaped, grey-green foliage. Responding to the warmth of spring sunshine, this lively variety casts its petals wide open by day and closes to a slender point at night. ‘Orphanidea Flava’ will bring the reassuring glow of warm embers to your container displays, rockeries, borders, and lawns. This botanical tulip is an excellent naturaliser and will radiate rapidly to form striking swathes of colour.

Like a perfectly formed little quail’s egg, ‘Polychroma’ delights with its milky white petals and buttercup yellow centre. Neat, pointed buds remain firmly shut at night, and gradually unfurl as the day brightens. Opening fully into broad, star-shaped blooms, these botanical tulips seem to drink in the sunlight to store within their golden centre. This low-growing variety is ideally suited to rockeries, containers, edging borders and dotting amongst lawns, where they will naturalise liberally. Multiple flower heads emerge from one bulb, providing an impressive display even within a smaller space.

‘Praestans Shogun’ brings invaluable spring cheer with joyful, marigold yellow petals flecked with saffron orange. These early birds burst with energy – one of the first to herald the warmer days of spring, this botanical tulip produces prolific blooms, opening its petals fully in the sunshine. Accentuated by strapping, blue-green leaves, these multi-headed lemon drops are a wonderful addition to your borders, rockeries, containers, and lawns. Monty Don of ‘Gardeners’ World’ chose this variety to plant in naturalising drifts along his ‘Cricket Lawn’ and expressed delight at their early, abundant display.

With delicate, Easter-egg colours of pale lilac centring around a soft, butter yellow base, ‘Saxatilis’ makes an early appearance to welcome warmer spring days. Misty mauve petals exhibit a silvery, sparkling sheen against a handsome backdrop of glossy, dark green leaves. Found growing in great swathes on the rocky hillsides of the Aegean Islands, these botanical tulips make an excellent choice for naturalising on well-drained soil amongst borders and lawns. Their compact habit also makes them ideal for rockeries and containers. The RHS has granted ‘Saxatilis’ with an Award of Garden Merit’, so you can be sure it will thrive in your garden.

Otherwise known as the ‘woodland’ tulip, ‘Sylvestris’ is the original native tulip – as such, it can be relied upon to flourish with minimal input. Sweetly scented, canary yellow blooms are streaked with faint brushstrokes of dark green. Beginning as refined, pointed buds with elegantly curling tips, the petals open during the day to catch the sun’s rays. Tolerant of dappled shade and a range of soil conditions, the versatile ‘Sylvestris’ is suitable for containers, rockeries, and borders. This wild variety is exceptional for naturalising amongst lawns, orchards, under shrubs, and around woodland edges, where it will multiply with abandon.

One of the most prolific Species tulips, ‘Tarda’ teems with a throng of joyous, star-shaped blooms. Featuring a broad centre of cheerful, primrose yellow, each petal is tipped with pristine white. The undersides of the plump buds are painted with delicate strokes of mauve, sepia and green – best appreciated when backlit by the morning sun. Flowering freely with up to 6 heads per stem, these botanical tulips put on an exuberant show, brightening borders, lawns, rockeries, pots. ‘Tarda’ is wonderfully reliable and perennial, naturalising and self-seeding happily, and has consequently been granted the accolade of an RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Bearing an astounding 9 or more snow-white flowers per bulb, ‘Turkestanica’ boasts a dramatic, densely packed display. A buttercup yellow core glows beside the surrounding, immaculate white petals which feature a green and bronze flush to the exterior. A supremely elegant heirloom tulip for incorporating into containers, rockeries, borders, and lawns. This is the ultimate variety for naturalising into drifts of dancing blooms. Particularly remarkable for its equally attractive seed-heads, which scatter freely to expand the show even further. The RHS has conferred an Award of Garden Merit upon ‘Turkestanica’ in acknowledgement of the reliability it offers in the garden.

Like a pick and mix of all your favourite sweeties, our ‘Species Mix’ is a specially chosen combination of elegant varieties to fill your garden with early colour. Comprising a careful selection of favourites, blooms will appear consecutively, overlapping in complimentary bright shades. These animated tulips open agreeably in the daylight and tuck themselves back into a bud at night. This assortment is the perfect, no-hassle solution to creating bold flushes of flowers in containers, rockeries, borders, and lawns. Species tulips are truly perennial and happy to naturalise: given room to roam, these will spread to form sweeping drifts of radiant colour.