White Tulips
If you run across other good tulips, do drop me an email to let me know about them and I will add them to this list as well.
Please note the pictures on this page are not of specific cultivars but are intended to show you the flower shapes of the different species.
Double Early
Flowering period: early
Average plant height: 20-30 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 5 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders and rock gardens
Most popular cultivars:
'Schoonoord'*: pure white
Single Early White Tulips
Flowering period: early
Average plant height: 20-30 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 5-10 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders, rock gardens and for forcing
Unfortunately, there are no commonly available single early white tulips.
Triumph White Tulips
Flowering period: mid-season
Average plant height: 25-40 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 5-10 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders, as cut flowers, and for forcing
Most popular cultivars:
'Coquette': creamy-white
'Garden Party': white and carmine red
'Hibernia'*: pure white
'High Noon': pink and white
'Inzel'*: ivory-white
'Pax'*: pure white
'Silentia': ivory-white
'Snowstar'*: pure white
'White Dream': ivory-white
Single Late White Tulips
Flowering period: late
Average plant height: 75 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 7.5 cm
Landscape uses: parks, beds, perennial beds, and as cut flowers
Most popular cultivars:
'Maureen': ivory-white 'Shirley': ivory-white, purple edge
Lily Flowered White Tulips
Flowering period: late
Average plant height: 35-75 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 5 cm
Landscape uses: park beds, borders, perennial beds and cut flowers
Most popular cultivars:
* 'White Triumphator': pure white
Parrot White Tulips
Flowering period: mid-season to late
Average plant height: 35-50 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 7.5 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders and as cut flowers
Most popular cultivars:
'Weber's Parrot': ivory-white, purple towards the edges
Tulipa 'Marilyn'
Double Late
Flowering period: late
Average plant height: 30-40 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 7.5 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders and cut flowers
Most popular cultivars:
'Casablanca': white
'Mount Tacoma': cream-white
'Upstar': ivory-white, flamed purple edge
Rembrandt
During Tulipmania in Holland in the 17th and 18th century, tulips with a flame pattern commanded very high prices. We now know this patterning was a result of viral infections. These are no longer sold but tulip breeders have duplicated the flaming patterns on these cultivars. And there are no virus problems with them.
Most popular cultivars:
'Cordell Hull': creamy white
'Sorbet': rosy white
Fringed
Flowering period: early or late
Average plant height: 35-75 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 7.5 cm
Landscape uses: parks, beds and as cut flowers
Most popular cultivars:
Unfortunately, there are none listed as commonly available.
Viridiflora White Tulips
Flowering period: late
Average plant height: 40-60 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 5 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders and as cut flowers. Note that these flowers are primarily green (viridiflora means green flower)
Most popular cultivars:
'Spring-Green': ivory-white and green
Kaufmanniana White Tulips
Flowering period: early
Average plant height: 10-20 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 7.5 cm
Landscape uses: beds, borders and rock gardens
Most popular cultivars:
Unfortunately, there are no commonly available Kauffmaniana tulips in white.
Fosteriana
Flowering period: early
Average plant height: 25-30 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 10 cm
Landscape uses: parks, beds, borders and rock gardens
Most popular cultivars:
'Concerto': sulfur-white
'Purissima' ('White Emperor'): pure white
'Sweetheart': lemon-yellow with broad ivory-white edge
Greigii White Tulips
Flowering period: early
Average plant height: 20-30 cm
Spacing between bulbs: 10 cm
Landscape uses: park beds, borders and rock gardens
Most popular cultivars:
Unfortunately, there are no commonly available white Greigii tulips in white.
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