Garden Gram #4: The Magic of Double Tulips

Many-petaled double tulips look like peonies, are easy to arrange, and last a long time in the vase. But singles have their merits!

Tulip Verona

🌷Variety Spotlight:  Tulipa ‘Verona’

Best Qualities:

• Unique beauty: Shape and color evolve and shift over time, transforming from a neatly packed many-petaled bloom to a blousy peony-like flower; from a tight ivory bud with pale green streaks on the outside to a lemony yellow open bloom that later fades to an antique, satiny white. 

Tulip Verona in the crate they grew in in the hoop house (left); just harvested (right); notice how lemony-limey the color starts out

• Early bloom time: Verona is classified as an early season tulip, and it was the first tulip to bloom in my hoop house – harvested March 27. The ones I planted outside are just now in bud, ahead of the others planted outside; I’m just hoping the wind and rain don’t do them in. They are behind deer fencing, in the vegetable garden.