Description

Tulip Danique is a compact, elegant botanical tulip with softly rounded petals in dusky rose-pink to antique raspberry, often flushed with mauve undertones and pale inner markings. Flowering in early to mid-spring — typically from late March to mid-April — it reaches just 20 cm, making it ideal for naturalistic ground-level planting, gravel gardens, ecological meadows, and low-input perennial schemes.

This cultivar thrives in full sun, in light, sharply drained soils, including sandy loam, gravel-rich beds, or chalky free-draining subsoils. In heavier Irish soils amend with horticultural grit, sand, or well-aged compost to avoid winter wet and ensure longevity. Once established, Danique naturalises modestly, returning reliably if left undisturbed in low-intervention bulb lawns, orchard plantings, or south-facing perennial edges.

Its low-growing form and soft colouring make it a valuable option for naturalised spring meadows, green roof systems or dryland ecological schemes, raised alpine beds and scree gardens and front-of-border wild-style perennial compositions

Though modest in stature, Tulip Danique punches above its weight in early-season visual rhythm, pairing beautifully with other botanical bulbs such as Iris reticulata, Crocus tommasinianus, Scilla bifolia, and compact Narcissus Minnow. Its open flower structure and early bloom time provide real pollen access for solitary bees, hoverflies, and early-flying beetles — particularly in sun-warmed, south-facing Irish gardens.

Other recommended companions include Anemone blanda, Chionodoxa luciliae, Muscari Baby’s Breath and  Narcissus February Gold.