If planting tulips in January, you need the same tools you would if planting them in autumn. Trowel – like this Wilkinson Sword Steel Hand Trowel, £11, Amazon – will enable you to dig a hole ...

Tulip bulbs are usually planted in autumn. That’s when you’ll find packs of bulbs at the store, and most of those come from the Netherlands — the world’s largest tulip bulb exporter. But ...

Tulips are technically perennial, but years of breeding to get the most beautiful blooms means that many varieties only flower reliably for one year. Many gardeners plant new bulbs each autumn to ...

Autumn Tullis reaches for a tulip during the second annual Maryland Tulip Festival in New Windsor.(Thomas Walker/Freelance) Visitors walk the rows of tulips during the second annual Maryland Tulip ...

Tulips are stunning spring bulbs that flower in April and May. They grow well in both pots and borders, and the bulbs should be planted in late autumn. Which? Gardening magazine grew and compared ...

The magazine advised: “Tulips are spring bulbs, planted in mid to late autumn. Tulips are technically perennial, but years of breeding to get the most beautiful blooms means that many varieties ...

By the 14th Century, wild tulips were being taken and planted in Ottoman palace gardens. It's likely that ambassadors and envoys from Western Europe first saw them in these gardens.

Tulips will be more expensive next year because persistent rain forced growers to delay planting their bulbs, creating a shortage. The expected shortage of tulip bulbs is “unprecedented”, Mark-Jan ...

In previous years, Eltham Palace in south-east London has held its own tulip festival to celebrate the start of spring. There's no such special event this year, but we're still promised tulips in ...

Tulips are stunning spring bulbs that flower in April and May. They grow well in both pots and borders, and the bulbs should be planted in late autumn. Which? Gardening magazine grew and compared ...