List of Award of Garden Merit tulips

The following is a list of tulip species and cultivars which have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[1] They are bulbous perennials, originally from sunny, open habitats in Europe and Asia. Thousands of cultivars are available in a huge range of sizes, shapes and colours (other than pure blue). They are usually sold as bulbs to be planted in autumn and winter for flowering in mid- to late spring. They are frequently treated as bedding plants, accompanied by other seasonal favourites such as wallflowers and forget-me-nots, flowering for one season before being discarded. However, in favoured locations they can be left in the ground to re-appear the following and subsequent years. Like many other bulbous plants they require a hot, dry dormant period in the summer.^[2]

Groups

Tulips are divided into 15 distinct groups:-

1. Single early - cup-shaped flowers to 7 cm (3 in) in diameter, often margined with contrasting colour; early to mid-spring
2. Double early - fully double bowl-shaped flowers to 8 cm (3 in) in diameter, often margined with contrasting colour; mid-spring
3. Triumph - single flowers to 6 cm (2 in) in diameter; mid- to late spring
4. Darwin hybrid - single flowers to 7 cm (3 in) in diameter; mid- to late spring
5. Single late - cup-shaped flowers to 7 cm (3 in) in diameter, includes the old cottage and Darwin groups; late spring
6. Lily-flowered - long, narrow blooms with flared, pointed petals; late spring
7. Fringed - edges of petals are fringed with a different colour; late spring
8. Viridiflora - flowers striped with green, or entirely green; late spring
9. Rembrandt - "broken" colours (striped or feathered) caused by a virus; late spring
10. Parrot - unevenly striped with irregularly cut edges; late spring
11. Double late - peony-shaped fully double flowers; late spring
12. Kaufmanniana - T. kaufmanniana and its hybrids, multi-coloured; early to mid-spring
13. Fosteriana - T. fosteriana and its hybrids; mid-spring
14. Greigii - T. greigii and its hybrids; early to mid-spring
15. Miscellaneous - all species and hybrids not included elsewhere; the smaller species require sharp drainage and are best grown in an alpine garden

name	species	division	colour	Height	ref	image
Ali Baba		greigii	red	25	[3]
Ancilla		Kaufmanniana	white/red	20	[4]
Angélique		double late	pink (pale)/green	30	[5]
Apricot Beauty		single early	pink (apricot)	35	[6]
Apricot Parrot		parrot	pink (apricot)	60	[7]
Ballade		lily-flowered	pink/white	50	[8]
Ballerina		lily-flowered	orange/red	60	[9]
Batalinii Group	Tulipa linifolia	miscellaneous	yellow (pale)	20	[10]
Black Parrot		parrot	maroon (dark)	50	[11]
Blue Heron		fringed	violet/mauve	60	[12]
Bright Gem	Tulipa linifolia	miscellaneous	yellow/orange	20	[13]
Capri		Darwin hybrid	red	50	[14]
China Pink		lily-flowered	pink (rose)	50	[15]
Cynthia	Tulipa clusiana	miscellaneous	cream/pink	25	[16]
Corsage		greigii	orange	25	[17]
Daydream		Darwin hybrid	orange	50	[18]
Early Harvest		Kaufmanniana	red/yellow	25	[19]
Fancy Frills		fringed	pink/white	45	[20]
Fantasy		parrot	pink (salmon)	50	[21]
Fusilier	Tulipa praestans	miscellaneous	red (scarlet)	30	[22]
Halcro		single late	pink (carmine)	50	[23]
Ivory Floradale		Darwin hybrid	white (ivory)	60	[24]
Juan		fosteriana	orange/yellow	25	[25]
Lilac Wonder	Tulipa saxatilis	miscellaneous	pink (pale)/yellow	25	[26]
Maureen		single late	yellow (pale)	60	[27]
Monte Carlo		double early	yellow	30	[28]
Ollioules		Darwin hybrid	pink (flesh)	40	[29]
Orange Emperor		fosteriana	orange	45	[30]
Oranje Nassau		double early	orange/red	35	[31]
Oranjezon		Darwin hybrid	orange	55	[32]
Oratorio		Greigii	orange/pink	20	[33]
Parade		Darwin hybrid	red (scarlet)	50	[34]
Pink Impression		Darwin hybrid	pink (deep)	55	[35]
Prinses Irene		Triumph	orange/purple	35	[36]
Purissima		Fosteriana	white (cream)	35	[37]
Red Georgette		single late	red	40	[38]
Red Impression		Darwin hybrid	red	60	[39]
Red Riding Hood		Greigii	red (scarlet)	20	[40]
Red Shine		lily-flowered	red (ruby)	60	[41]
Showwinner		Kaufmanniana	red (scarlet)	20	[42]
Sorbet		single late	white/red	60	[43]
Spring Green		Viridiflora	white/green	40	[44]
Stresa		Kaufmanniana	red/yellow	25	[45]
Tangerine Beauty	Tulipa vvedenskyi	miscellaneous	orange/yellow	20	[46]
Temple of Beauty		single late	pink (deep, salmon)	60	[47]
Toronto		Greigii	red (coral)	20	[48]
Trinket		Greigii	red/cream	20	[49]
	Tulipa altaica	miscellaneous	yellow	25	[50]
	Tulipa kolpakowskiana	miscellaneous	yellow/green	20	[51]
	Tulipa linifolia	miscellaneous	red (scarlet)	20	[52]
	Tulipa sprengeri	miscellaneous	red	50	[53]
	Tulipa tarda	miscellaneous	white/yellow	15	[54]
	Tulipa turkestanica	miscellaneous	white/yellow	30	[55]
	Tulipa urumiensis	miscellaneous	yellow	20	[56]
White Triumphator		lily-flowered	white	60	[57]

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