What are your favourite tulips?

[DelphineFox]

With pictures if possible. I like one called Queen Jewel

Too many to mention - and I tend to buy different varieties every year - but Ballerina is a constant favourite. I tend to go for boiled sweet colours, mostly oranges and purples, because my garden is quite shady and the nearly-black varieties such as Queen of Night and Ronaldo, which I otherwise love, tend to get lost. I’ve currently got a lovely red and white stripe in flower which I think is probably Carnevale de Rio.

Sounds lovely. I like red and white striped ones as they remind me of the tulip fever tulip. Semper Augustus.
Last year I had queen jewel and rems favourite (magenta and white striped.) This year I have louvre orange and aphrodite (pink)

I’ve had Rem’s Favourite in the past. This year I’ve also got Purple Dream, Purple Heart, Lasting Love and Brown Sugar, although the last two are survivors from last year and are looking very weedy. When Farmer Gracy have a sale, I tend to lose control!