Description

Tulip Danceline is a truly elegant double late tulip, producing fully double, peony-style blooms in ivory-white with delicate rose-pink feathering and raspberry markings that intensify with maturity. Blooming in mid to late May, this cultivar reaches 35–40 cm, delivering a sophisticated late-season display ideal for bridal schemes, white-themed borders, and cut flower production.

Best grown in full sun and deep, fertile, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil, Danceline performs strongly across many Irish garden contexts — particularly in sheltered formal borders, boutique hotel plantings, public display beds and private cutting gardens and floristry plots.

It is particularly valuable in high-end layered schemes, bringing weight and refinement to May-blooming bulb compositions, especially when planted in groups of 10 or more. To prevent rot in heavier clay soils, improve with sharp sand, horticultural grit, or organic mulch, and avoid overly shaded or frost-holding sites.

Pair with Camassia leichtlinii alba or Tulip Mount Tacoma to establish elegant, high-impact compositions suited to luxury estate borders, bridal displays, and ceremonial public plantings. For depth and seasonal progression, incorporate into layered tulip schemes beneath Allium ‘Mount Everest’, or weave through early-flowering perennials to create a visually continuous, structurally balanced late-spring display.

While not nectar-rich, its wide-open double blooms can provide occasional landing surfaces for hoverflies, and when integrated into multi-species designs, it extends visual continuity and supports pollinator movement across the spring landscape.