Tulip Princeps is a botanical tulip in red with yellow base giving spring displays a clear splash of colour at a lower height than many standard landscape tulips. Supplied for spring planting across Ireland, including rockeries, gravel gardens, naturalised sunny planting, civic beds, estate borders, hotel gardens, public parks, courtyard planters and commercial landscape schemes.
Fosteriana Tulip Princeps is a compact early-season tulip for planting where strong red colour is needed close to the front of a display. It gives a different effect from taller red tulips: lower, earlier and more suited to edges, containers, smaller civic beds and close-view spring schemes. The flowers are single, bowl-shaped and red, opening to show a yellow-bronze base.
Princeps is useful where early red colour is required without the height or scale of larger Fosteriana varieties such as Orange Emperor. It suits civic planters, low estate borders, hotel entrance beds, public garden edges, courtyard containers, school grounds, commercial frontages and formal seasonal displays. The compact height makes it particularly useful in the front line of beds, where taller tulips might obscure lower spring planting.
Princeps combines well with early narcissus, blue muscari, white crocus, low-growing species tulips, cream tulips and spring bedding. It can be used in repeated groups for a clear red edge, or planted in containers where the bowl-shaped flowers and bronze-green base can be seen close up.
Fosteriana tulips are descended from the wild species Tulipa fosteriana, with large early flowers and broad leaves that may show purple or brown markings.
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