Description

Tulip Columbus is a classic double early tulip, offering fully double, rose-like blooms in bright cerise pink edged with ivory-white. Blooming in early April, it reaches 35–40 cm, and is widely used by landscape contractors and public realm designers for dense, formal seasonal displays in civic bedding, formal seasonal containers, and high-traffic urban planting schemes.

Columbus thrives in full sun to light shade, in rich, well-prepared soils with good drainage. Ideal soil pH is neutral to slightly acidic. It is well-suited to formal parterres, municipal beds, public building entrances, and decorative large containers. As a double early, it offers a dense floral presence in April when many schemes are still sparse.

Best used en masse in colour-dense groups or flanked by Muscari armeniacum, Anemone coronaria, or compact double daffodils like ‘Rip van Winkle’.

While Columbus is not pollinator-driven, its early emergence and wide flower surface provide some incidental value to urban insects, particularly when planted with nectar-rich neighbours.