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06.06.2023 - 18:59 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
17 of the Best Multiheaded Tulip VarietiesWhen most of us picture a tulip plant, we think of a beautiful single blossom coming off an individual, straight stalk out of a mass of leaves that all grow out of one bulb.
But many people don’t realize that there are overachieving tulip varieties that grow multiple blossoms off of each bulb as well.
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You know what that means, right? You can grow enough flowers to fill a vase from just one plant!
Limited in terms of garden space, but you want a bunch of tulips? These offer the perfect solution. Just want more bang for your buck? Multiheaded tulips to the rescue.
We’re going to go over what these marvelous plants are and which varieties you should check out. Here’s what you can expect, coming up:
17 of the Best Varieties of Bouquet TulipsAs we said, multiheaded tulips are plants that form multiple flowers from a single bulb. Depending on the cultivar, one bulb might produce up to seven blossoms. They’re sometimes called multi-flowering or bouquet tulips.
Instead of a single stem, these plants have a main stalk with multiple offshoots, each with its own blossom. And these flowers can be single or double.
Confused?
Multi-headed tulips aren’t the same thing as double tulips. Double and peony tulips have big, full blossoms with multiple layers of petals. Many of them do genuinely resemble peonies rather than tulips.
Single tulips are the traditional type that has a single layer of petals.
Multi-headed tulips generally bloom later in the spring than other types, usually in late May. The single late division is the most common type of multi-flower tulip.
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