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.

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

Slugs and snails
Aphids

Bulb rot
Root rot
Gray mold
Nematodes

‘African Queen’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with mauve outsides fading to white at their margins and marked with yellow at their bases. The insides of the petals are dark purple red with white margins.

‘Arabian Mystery’: 1’ tall plants with white-margined, dark-purple blooms.

‘Attila’: 1’ tall plants with pale violet blooms.

‘Bellona’: 10” to 1 ¼’ tall plants with fragrant golden blooms.

‘Bing Crosby’: 10” to 1’ tall plants with bright red blooms.

‘Couleur Cardinal’: 8 to 10” tall plants with deep violet-purple blooms on the outside, with red insides.

‘Don Quichotte’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with rosy-pink blooms.

‘Dreaming Maid’: 1’ tall plants with white-margined, violet blooms.

‘Esther’: 1 ½’ tall plants with pale pink blooms flushed with rose.

‘Garden Party’:   1’ tall plants with red-margined, white blooms. The insides of the petals are white with red flames and white bases.

‘Golden Mirjoran’: 8” to 1’ tall plants with pale-yellow-margined, rosy-red blooms. The insides of the flowers are bright yellow with thick red margins.

‘Hollandia’: 1 ½’ tall plants with vivid red, satiny blooms.

‘Ile de France’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with golden-yellow-margined red blooms with deep orange-green bases

‘Inzell’: 1’ tall plants with white blooms.

‘Jackpot’: 1 ½’ tall plants with showy, white-margined, deep-purple (almost black) blooms.

‘Kees Nelis’: 10” to 1 ¼’ tall plants with orange-yellow margined red blooms.

‘Leen van der Mark’: 1’ tall plants with white-margined, red blooms. Inner sides of the red petals have wide white margins and yellow-spotted, white bases.

‘Lustige Witwe’: 10” to 1 ¼’ tall plants with white-margined, red blooms. Syn. Tulipa ‘Merry Widow’.

‘Margot Fonteyn’: 1’ tall plants with yellow-based, red blooms thinly margined with yellow. The insides are red with deeper-red bases.

‘Negrita’: 1’ tall plants with purple-red-veined purple blooms tinted with blue at their bases on the outside. The insides of the petals are purple with blue basal marks and cream edging.

‘New Design’: 1’ tall plants with pale yellow blooms fading to pale pink. The margins are magenta, and the inner sides of the petals are flamed with peach and marked with dark yellow at their bases. The foliage has pink margins.

‘Orange Monarch’: 1’ tall plants with orange blooms flushed with red, and marked with yellow-orange at their bases. The inner sides of the petals are peach-orange.

‘Page Polka’: 8 to 10” tall plants with white-flamed and -based red blooms.

‘Palestrina’: 8 to 10” tall, late-blooming plants with green tinted peach-pink blooms.

‘Pax’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with white blooms.

‘Peer Gynt’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with purple margined rosy pink blooms. The bases are white with yellow markings, and the insides of the petals are pink.

‘Prinses Irene’: 8 to 10” tall plants with peach colored blooms marked with violet flames.

‘Rosalie’: 1 ¼’ tall plants with pale pink blooms with white bases inside and out.

‘Shirley’: 10’ to 1 ¼’ tall plants with purple-margined, white blooms spotted with purple at their bases.