How to Choose Tulips for Pink Tulip Flower Gardens

If you are a person who loves pink you can purchase a variety of tulips to make a pink tulip flower garden. Some varieties of pink tulips are fringed tulips, parrot tulips, single tulips, and double tulips. You can also find a variety of specialty pink tulips as well, which are much fairer than the legendary black tulip.

One of the lightest shades of pink tulips is the Apricot Beauty tulip, a mid to late spring flower bloomer, which is a light pink - orange color. A specialty tulip with a green color in the base of its petals is the Greenland tulip, a late spring bloomer.

A parrot petal type of pink tulips is the Pink Fountain tulip which has fringed petals and blossoms in mid-Spring. Pink Impression tulips yield single jumbo blossoms that bloom in mid-season and reach a height up to 26 inches. The Strawberries and Cream Peony tulip is a double-blossom tulip that reaches a height of 18-22 inches in mid-to-late spring.

A colorful mix of pink tulips is the Appleblossom Pink Tulip collection which contains a mixture of both light and medium pink tulip bulbs and echoes the pink delight of apple tree blossoms. An early spring bloomer is the Toronto Tulip, a single pink-edged vermillion tulip that reaches a height of only 10 inches, ideal for borders, containers or small areas.

Another pink tulip is named the Angelique tulip. This one is a mid to late spring bloomer and it grows up to 18 inches tall. If you want a variety of colors other than pink in your flower garden it is recommended to mix this tulip with the Blue Hyacinths, a flower that is similar in type to the light purple Lilac. You could also plant this with a white tulip such as the Purissima Jumbo Deluxe White Tulip, which is a jumbo sized single blossom tulip.

All of the above are just a few examples of tulips that you can plant in a flower garden. This of course can be mixed with any color combinations of tulips that you want in your flower garden. Most of the time these are planted a few inches apart either in clusters of varied types of tulips or in one-color tulip garden patches.

Depending upon what kind of result you expect when planting, you may want to make sure that all the tulips that you plant together bloom at the same time. It is also recommended that you pick tulips to plant together of the same height.

It is not recommended that you try to just plant any two tulips together. For example, you would not want to plant a bright orange tulip with a light pink tulip. These colors have a tendency to clash and you would not want a pink tulip garden that clashes.

Usually pink tulips look best with various shades of white, light blue (usually a different type of flower rather than a tulip), magenta, or a variety of bright-colored tulips. Pink tulips look good in one and two colored tulip beds as well as in multi-colored tulip beds.

Another tulip planting idea for a pink tulip flower garden is to plant some super parrot tulips, which are tall flowers with beautiful curly, fluttery-type leaves along with some Green Wave and Greenland tulips. The last two types of tulips would look good with the super parrot because the super parrot is an elegant looking white tulip and the Greenland types of tulips are shades of a medium-bright pink with green veins in the flower blossom. This combination would work well together.

A large part of choosing which colors would go together in a pink tulip garden is largely a matter of intuition. It is as if you are trying to choose what to wear in the morning. You would consider all the possible options that you have and then make a decision. Hopefully this article has given you some ideas of how to create a beautiful pink flower garden.