Data specific to Tulips (Edit)
Division: Div. 2: Double Early
Registrant: P. Bakker Mz.
Year Registered: 1933
Spring Bloom Season: Early
Special Classifications: Double-flowered
Historic
Awards: KAVB - AM - Award of Merit

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 12 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Orange
Other: Orange flushed coppery red
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Propagation: Seeds: Other info: Takes about 6 years from seed to flower.
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Parentage: Sport of: Peach Blossom

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Common names
  • Double Early Tulip
  • Tulip
  • Peony-flowered Tulip
Also sold as:
  • Willem van Orange

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Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2010-03-09
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2012-03-23

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