Description

Tulip Heweri is a dazzling botanical tulip whose golden-yellow blooms are dramatically streaked and flamed with fiery reddish-orange on the outer petals, creating a jewel-like effect that glows in the early spring light. Each stem produces multiple flowers, adding extra vibrancy and fullness to planting schemes. This compact, low-growing species tulip opens fully in warm sunshine, revealing intricate colour contrasts and a cheerful display that brightens rockeries, edges, and small garden spaces.

Growing to around 15–20 cm, Heweri thrives in full sun and requires well-draining, sandy or gritty soils to ensure its bulbs remain healthy year after year. It is an ideal choice for rock gardens, gravel plantings, alpine beds, container schemes, and dry, sunny slopes where its intense colour will stand out. It pairs beautifully with Chionodoxa forbesii, Anemone blanda Blue Shades, or Muscari azureum for layered colour contrast and extended seasonal interest.

As a species tulip, Heweri is long-lived and naturalises well, rewarding minimal care with reliable annual displays. Its open blooms in March and April are also highly attractive to early pollinators, providing nectar and pollen when food sources are scarce. This makes it as ecologically valuable as it is visually striking — a perfect choice for gardeners and landscapers seeking both biodiversity support and show-stopping early colour.