How to grow the best tulips for your spring garden: tips from a National Trust Head Gardener

Tulips are a true spring showstopper. These classic flowers have been loved by many for hundreds of years and come in almost every colour as well simple and showy varieties. Plus, they’re easy to grow in containers, flower beds and even lawns for a pop of colour as the season unfolds.
In this video you’ll learn how to grow the best spring tulip displays for your pots, garden borders and cut flowers for your home with handy tips from Piers Horry, Head Gardener at the National Trust's Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire.
Join Piers at Dyrham Park’s seventeenth-century baroque-style garden near Bath - home to a fifteen thousand-strong tulip spectacle come spring. As Piers guides you through the different planting styles and eye-catching displays on offer, you’ll find formal planting in the Parterre - where you’ll be introduced to the elegant new cultivar of tulip named after Dyrham Park, created in collaboration with Blue Diamond Garden Centres - to more informal drift-style planting in the orchard. Both styles of planting can be recreated in your own garden if you follow Piers’ top tips for a successful display, including planting your tulip bulbs at the right depth, ensuring ample drainage and deadheading and cutting back foliage so your tulips can flourish in your spring garden year after year.
Watch the video to learn how, with a little forward-planning and by following Piers’ advice on how best to plant your bulbs, you can achieve a spring display of tulips packed with colour too.
We’ve many types of tulip on display at the gardens and parks in our care, so if you haven’t got tulips growing at home, you can spot them in spring at gardens and parks near you: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visi...
Our gardening teams also have plenty of top tips for making the most of your own green space throughout the year. You can find seasonal gardening tips on our website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/disc...
If you’d like to plant your own tulips, we’ve worked exclusively with Blue Diamond to create a collection of different tulip bulbs inspired by the places we look after. You’ll be able to shop the collection at Blue Diamond garden centres from September 2024: www.bluediamond.gg/national-t...

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