How to Create a Blue Tulip Garden

A blue tulip garden is in similar vein to that of the black tulip garden. It is largely a matter of the imagination. You can find ways to create the effect of a blue tulip garden.

One way to do so is purchase various light purple and lavender-colored tulips and mix them with a variety of other blue flowers such as the Blue Grape Hyacinths, Chilean Crocuses, Lavender Mountain Lilies (with a tint of blue), and Azure Alliums. All these and other flowers can create a specific combination of colors to help create the illusion of a blue tulip garden.

If you are not particular about whether your garden looks specifically blue you can take advantage of other possibilities. For example, you can plant red Cassini Tulips together with Blue Grape Hyacinths. These combo blooms in Mid-spring.

If you live in America, there is a possibility that the above mentioned flower combination will remain in bloom until the 4^th of July. It all depends upon where exactly you live and how well you take care of these flowers. If you want to take the chance that these flowers will last until Independence Day you may want to add a white parrot tulip flower to this combination as well.

Blue Heron Tulip The world's first blue-fringed tulip!

Another blue tulip garden color combination that may suit you is one with a combination of purple and blue flowers mixed together. Some types of purple tulips include the Royal Purple tulip which is a double blossom flower and the purple Negrita tulip. The purple colored Negrita tulip is a medium purple color. The Atilla tulip is another tulip with a shade of purple that would look especially with blue hyacinths in a blue tulip garden.

Sometimes you can mix certain blue flowers with the Blue Beauty tulip which is a medium pink colored tulip (why they call it a blue tulip is a mystery). You can combine these with a variety of other flowers such as the Synaeda Blue tulip which is also a medium pink blossom that has touches of white in it as well. For contrast, plant this among yellow tulips or even orange tulips.

Blue Grape Hyacinth Sampler Clusters of chubby little deep cobalt blue bells grow on sturdy stems.

Now you have some ideas of how to create the illusion of a blue tulip garden. The reason why certain shades of purples and pinks are chosen is because they complement certain shades of blue. More specifically, the purple color derives from blue, and some pink shades have a hint of purple in them. Therefore, all these colors work well with blue, and even sometimes with each other.

The combination of flowers planted in a blue tulip garden may vary by a person’s taste. However, you may still want to find suggestions from both ordinary people and experts in order to find new ideas of how to design this garden. For example, a blue base orange tulip contains a complementary color combination that is quite striking.

Blue Base Tulip Eye catching in a foreground planting!

Another attractive combination is the Skajit Valley tulip which is white with blue edges. Mixed with other blue flowers, this tulip provides a lighter highlight in your garden.

Skagit Valley Tulip A dutch delight!

Hopefully the above has given you some ideas of how to achieve the blue tulip garden look. Some people use other techniques as well in order to achieve this look. One very common one nowadays is to plant real-looking fake flowers in a tulip garden.

In fact, if you do not mind fake flowers, especially silk ones and other flowers that look real, you may enjoy this. You can purchase all different shades of manufactured blue tulips from craft stores, department stores, and even in some flower shops.

Most people prefer to use real flowers in their gardens, however. That is because they love the fresh scent they can catch from these flowers while a gentle breeze is blowing. Not only that, but the true effect of a flower cannot be totally capture in a fake flower.