Description
Parrot Tulip Texas Flame is a high-visibility tulip planting where late spring colour needs to be bright, warm and unmistakable. It is a more open and ruffled alternative to standard red and yellow tulips, using flame markings and feathered petals to create movement across the display. The large blooms have butter-yellow petals strongly overlaid with bright red flames and streaks, with occasional fine green accents.
For Irish schemes, Texas Flame is best used where strong colour is an advantage rather than a distraction. It suits civic planters, public garden beds, hotel entrances, estate borders, courtyard containers, commercial frontages, event spaces and seasonal feature planting. The yellow and red patterning gives an immediate impact from a distance, while the feathered Parrot form provides detail for close-view displays.
Texas Flame combines well with plain yellow tulips, red tulips, cream narcissus, blue muscari, dark purple tulips and later alliums. It can also be used as a warmer partner to darker Parrot tulips where a scheme needs contrast and energy.
Because Parrot tulips produce large, ruffled flowers, Texas Flame is best placed in sheltered beds, managed borders and containers rather than exposed roadside or open verge schemes.




