Description

Tulip Avignon is a commanding Single Late tulip, reaching 60–70 cm tall with a statuesque form and fiery red-orange petals suffused with golden light at the base. Its long goblet-shaped blooms emerge in May, making it one of the final tulips to flower. It is perfect for closing the tulip season with height, colour, and presence.

Avignon thrives in full sun, in rich, drained loamy soil with good air circulation. It’s exceptionally weather-tolerant and performs well in open beds, exposed coastal plots, or civic borders. Particularly suited to high-impact planting in public parks, roundabouts, hotel grounds, institutional gardens, or business campus landscapes where visibility, longevity, and vertical interest are required.

In structured schemes, it pairs beautifully with late-flowering Alliums like Globemaster or Purple Sensation, or Tulip Queen of Night for contrast. For biodiversity-conscious designs, underplant with Muscari for pollinator-rich perennial mats to enhance ecological value.

While not strongly fragrant, its large, open-faced flowers provide accessible landing zones for bumblebees and hoverflies during the late spring foraging window. Tulip Avignon is also a superb cut flower—harvest just as the buds begin to show colour for long vase life.

For landscape-scale planting, install in blocks of 25+ with 12–15 cm spacing. Allow foliage to fully die back post-bloom for perennial reliability.