Kaufmanniana Tulips
Kaufmanniana Tulips are among the earliest tulips to flower from March into April, making them ideal for window boxes, rock gardens, containers, and front-of-border planting. They have broad beautifully mottled leaves, while the exterior of the flowers normally carries a clear carmine blush.
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Early Harvest
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Kaufmanniana Tulip ‘Early Harvest’ produces warm red flowers delicately edged with soft golden tones, bringing vibrant early colour to the spring garden. The cheerful blooms of tulip ‘Early Harvest’ open wide in sunshine on compact stems, making this reliable variety ideal for borders, containers, rockeries, and front-of-border planting schemes.
Flowering early in the season, it adds warmth and brightness to spring displays while pairing beautifully with muscari, dwarf narcissi, and other early bulbs.
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Shakespeare
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Kaufmanniana Tulip ‘Shakespeare’ is a distinct and beautifully coloured variety, producing elegant blooms with carmine-red outer petals softly edged in salmon. Inside, the flowers of tulip ‘Shakespeare’ open to glowing salmon tones flushed with scarlet, surrounding a bright golden-yellow base that shines in spring sunlight.
Free-flowering and compact in habit, this striking early tulip is perfect for borders, containers, rockeries, and smaller garden spaces where its rich colouring and beautifully detailed blooms can be fully appreciated.
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Showwinner
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Kaufmanniana Tulip ‘Showwinner’ is a champion bloom to bring a touch of theatre to your garden in early spring. Sensational flowers of ruby red beam above stout foliage with burgundy stripes. The striking crimson blooms will steal the limelight in your container and window box displays.
This Kaufmanniana tulip variety is reliably perennial and will naturalise into resplendent swathes if left undisturbed in rockeries and borders. Tulip ‘Showwinner’ is an apt name for this illustrious variety, which has been granted the venerated RHS Award of Garden Merit. Encore!
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Stresa
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Bursting onto the scene in a flash of joyous colour, Kaufmanniana Tulip ‘Stresa’ is one of the first tulips to appear, blooming alongside crocuses and narcissi. Dazzling canary-yellow flowers are stamped with broad flares of pillar-box red, accompanied by handsome, delicately marbled foliage.
Pointed buds show off the decorative underside to each petal, before opening fully in the sunshine with beaming, golden faces. Tulip ‘Stresa’ makes a bold accent for window boxes, containers, rockeries, and at the front of borders. This stand-out tulip variety boasts the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit for its proven performance and high value in the garden.
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Two Tone Mixture
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Our Kaufmanniana Tulip ‘Two-Tone Mixture’ is a perfect pairing of head-turning tulip varieties, ‘Showwinner’ and ‘Stresa’, to provide a spectacle of vivid, eye-catching colour. These two wonderful companions flower at exactly the same time for an abundant display. The sunshine yellow base of ‘Stresa’ offsets its crimson stripes, which complement and enrich the similarly scarlet petals of ‘Showwinner’.
The brilliance of these blooms is enhanced by ornamental, striped foliage. Both outstanding varieties flaunt an RHS Award of Garden Merit as proof of their reliable performance. Create a phenomenal display in your window boxes, containers, rockeries, and borders with this bold duo, bringing exuberance early in the season year after year.
