The adorable Polychroma botanical tulip will constitute a nice spring surprise around you. It will fully expose its beautiful yellow heart surrounded by the clean white inner petals in the spring sun. The outer side is adorned by the olive green streaks and subtle thin green stripes. The pointed petals unfold fully in the sun to create an almost flat star. The silvery leaves enhance the ornamental value of this plant that constitutes a visual delight. The tulip offered here develops several flowers at one stem, creating a sea of flowers. The beautiful and subtle Polychroma tulip is surprisingly sturdy and reliable. It quickly naturalizes in the favourable conditions, developing denser tufts every spring. These extremely low, 12 to 15 cm, plants are so charming that you simply have to plant them on border or alongside a path in order to admire their beauty. Growing this variety in a planter is also easy. The cheerfully sparkling grouping of the white-yellow stars will definitely cheer you up after the long winter.

Tulips do not belong to flowering plants that require any special growing conditions. You only need to follow some basic rules in order to enjoy flowers grown on your own. The plants in question are rather undemanding in regard to the soil, provided it is not to moist and not to loamy. Tulips prefer soft, fertile, properly cultivated and fertilized soils. The compost proves to be the most effective tulip food, as the plants will pay you back for it with large flowers. Should a site not meet tulip expectations, you may try to improve the soil. Loosen heavy soils with an admixture of sand and enhance the sandy ones with humus and compost. Tulips require sunlight, but a few hours of shade per day will not hurt them. The water requirements of tulips are considered moderate. Do not let the soil, in which they grow, dry out though. Start fertilizing tulips when their shoots reach a height of about 5 cm. This moment usually falls on March. Apply nitrogen-rich agents, because plants will use this element as a building block.

Tulip bulbs should be planted in autumn only. Pour some sand, then compost and high quality soil into the hole before putting the bulb in. Place the bulb tip up, cover with soil, press it gently and water. We recommend to spread some mulch over the planting site before the winter. It will protect the bulbs from the frost and limit weed development and drying of the soil. This treatment is not absolutely necessary, yet highly recommended.

Each package contains 5 bulbs of the Polychroma tulip sized 6 to 7 cm in circumference. The basic plant facts and growing instructions are printed on the packaging label.

• Variety: Polychroma
• Use: ornamental
• Flower colour: white and yellow
• Vegetation form: perennial
• Flower type: flat, star-shaped
• Site: sunny or partial shade; soft, fertile, properly cultivated and fertilized soil
• Bulbs: 5
• Height: 12 - 15 cm
• Planting period: autumn
• Wintering in the ground?: yes