Tulip ‘Ice Cream’

Top off an eye-catching spring display with the special and unique ‘Ice Cream’ variety of tulip. Gorgeous pink petals with a hint of green surround this fascinating and ruffled looking white inner bloom, resembling a delicious ice cream.

Perfect in pots dotted around the garden or mixed in beds and borders for a real show-stopping display throughout spring. Supplied as 10 bulbs, size 11+ ready to plant in autumn, growing to a height of 40cm.

Top Tips

Which way up? Usually pointy end up, but if you are not sure, plant the bulb on its side and it will eventually right itself.

Care Guide

Planting Advice for your tulip bulbs:

• Plant bulbs at twice the depth of the height of the bulb and four times their width apart. e.g. 5cm tall bulbs need to be planted 10cm below the surface of the ground and 20cm apart.
• Please check the bag for any additional planting instructions.
• They are fine to plant even if a little green growth is showing, they?ll just need a good watering when you plant them, and then only when the soil is dry.
• Leave them in the ground once they die back for flowers again next year.
• While all the energy that a bulb needs in order to grow is stored in the bulb itself, they will do better if you feed them when in active green growth.
• Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.
• If planted in pots be sure to water frequently and keep moist.

Aftercare Advice for your tulip bulbs:

• Tulips can be planted as late as November, but it?s best to get your bulbs in the ground so that they can establish a good root system before the weather becomes too cold.
• Plant in herbaceous borders, in pots, or leave in the ground to naturalise.
• Water frequently and if in pots ensure that the compost doesn’t dry out.

Tidying your growing tulips:

• Once flowering is over, it is important to leave the leaves on your tulips until they have died right down, usually by early summer. This allows the bulb to store food and produce flowers the following year.
• While it is recommended that bulbs are dug up and dried in the summer sun, modern thought is that there is no real benefit from doing this and many gardeners now leave bulbs where they are.