Mix bulbs up or plant in colour blocks?

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Would you plant your tulips in swathes of complementary colours or plant them in blocks of single colour around the place. It's in an 18 foot long border with a fair amount of perennials in that stand over the winters, some evergreens, some grasses - so there's a bit of structure there already.

I like colour blocks when I've seen them in gardens. Although a block of shorter tulips with a longer contrasting variety interspersed looks good as well.

I prefer a colourful mix.
but that's personal preference.

I like drifts, so somewhere between colour blocks and all mixed up.

It depends on the colours for me. I tend to do either all in one colour (so different varieties of white tulips for me), but contrasting colours also look really good. Have a look at the colour wheel examples on something like Pinterest or Google - I think it's something like opposites, or thirds or neighbour colours work well together if you're going to mix?

Colour blocks for me. They have more impact than the ones I mix up and plant.

Colour blocks.

I haven’t been successful with tulips. They don’t stand up nice and straight.

I like colour blocks although agree that it's personal preference. I can get a bit odd with colours anyway like pegs, matching underwear, you get the gist

I like mixed blocks. So a block of pale pink and purple, then a block of white and dark pink and so on.

Perhaps not too regimented though, curves rather than straight lines.

I think I’ll go blocks this year. Tulips don’t reliably come back in my garden, bit damp, so I can try something different next year.