Tulipa Gorilla

She's tall, handsome, and blessed with the finest, most delicately fringed, silky petals, in a rich shade of purple plum. She's a mid-season variety, from April to May, with tassel-tipped flowers opening from gorgeous tight, deep burgundy buds to stand proud at 50cm tall in beds, borders, window boxes and containers. The stems and foliage are glaucous, a counterpoint to the saturated wine of the petals and buds. There are plenty more tulip options here.

If you have enough to cut and bring indoors, all tulips carry on growing once in a vase and can get quite bendy. To combat this, try wrapping the stems in paper and winding around some wire, to keep the stems straight. Dunk in water for a few hours and then arrange in a vase.

Gorillas in your garden

It needs a well-drained soil and a good deal of sun (south facing is best, although west or east will work too), and plant at the end of autumn to skip viral and fungal diseases. Once flowered, leave the foliage to die back before removing. You can lift and dry the tulips, then replant the following autumn, for better year-on-year flowering. If you leave them, they won't last quite as many years.

A sizeable troop of gorillas weaved in and out of candy pink Fusarino is spectacular, or draw on the classic, well-proved combination of tulips and wallflowers: deep burnished orange Fire King with bold claret, or cool things down with an underplanting of White Dame. Another advantage is that the wallflowers create a good dense greenery that covers the fading leaves of the tulips.

Gorilla works well in generous pots, alongside pale lilac and white tulip Sweet Flag perhaps, or combined with other spring bulbs such as pink and white splashed Fondant hyacinths.

Features

Colour: deep burgundy
Height: 50cm
Scent: none
Flowering: April to May
Group: fringed
Bulb Size: 11-12cm
Planting Depth: 10cm
Planting Months: October-December

A handsome beast

Strong and powerful, handsome and thought-provoking, capable of sign language? Gorilla was introduced in 2008.

Plant tulips such as Gorilla in borders and containers. They like richer soils with good drainage.

Space them quite widely when planting - tulip bulbs can be big so we recommend around 10cm between bulbs. The planting hole should be about three times deeper than the bulb is tall. The pointy end is the top...

If you want to keep them flowering the following year, plant them deep (20cm is fine) and deadhead as soon as the flowers fade. Many varieties multiply happily in the ground, but if in doubt, lift them when the foliage has withered. Dry them in a cool, dark place, remove any dried soil and store (in the dark at a low room temperature) in a tray or net, after removing any diseased or damaged bulbs. Replant the following October/November.

By all means apply a high potash fertiliser during the growing season to help bulk up the bulb for next year. Lift and divide clumps of tulips if flowering is poor.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
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Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

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Misc	Wildlife Value
Area	Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Colour	Purple
Also Good	Fragrant, Vase Life
Flowering	Apr, May

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'Gorilla' Tulip Bulbs

Tulipa Gorilla

Tulipa Gorilla

Gorillas in your garden

Features

A handsome beast

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

You can See Current Delivery Information Here

​'Gorilla' Tulip Bulbs

Tulipa Gorilla

​Tulipa Gorilla

Gorillas in your garden

Features

A handsome beast

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

'Gorilla' Tulip Bulbs

Tulipa Gorilla

Bareroot planting is best done between October and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?