Purple Tulips

We often get attracted by those fresh and beautiful purple tulip bulbs at some local florist. Surely, tulips are world's third most popular flowers for a reason! Tulips belong to the flower genus tulipa and the family Liliaceae. These perennial bulbous plants are native to Southern Europe, Northwest China, North America and Iran and many parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. Commercial cultivation of tulips began in Ottoman Empire in Turkey. Basically, tulips are indigenous to mountainous and temperate parts of the world. Tulips are available in numerous varieties and numerous colors. Amongst many colors of tulips, passionate purple tulips are really popular. Keep reading the following article and find out information about purple tulip flower meaning and planting tips for purple tulip bulbs.

Meaning of Purple Tulips

What do tulips mean? Well, as we know different flower colors are associated with different meanings on the basis of beliefs and human emotions. Purple tulips are alluded in the Shakespearean play 'Hamlet', wherein, Ophelia speaks in her monologue about purple color and related it to nobility. Color purple is often referred as a symbol of royalty, power, luxury and serenity. They are also a symbol of romance and exuberance. It is the reason why most of the time, brides choose them as wedding flowers for the centerpiece, bridal bouquet, and other wedding flower arrangements. There are different varieties of purple tulip flowers. The most popular of them being, Triumph, Purple Star and Claudia purple tulips. All these types of tulips have different hues of purple color and they also have different blooming season.

Types of Purple Tulips

As I said earlier, there are many types of tulips in purple color. These colors might not influence the flower symbolism, but they can surly influence your personal likings when it comes to flower gardening. Apart from the above mentioned triumph, purple star and Claudia purple tulips, they are also available in varieties like Single late, Lily flowered, Parrot and Fringed purple tulips. All these varieties look great when you use them in flower beds, forcing, cut flowers or garden borders. Along with the rest of the colors of tulips, purple tulip plants can be the excellent choice for exotic landscaping of your outdoors. Here are some of the most popular varieties of tulips in purple color:

• Arabian Mystery: Violet flowers with white edge
• Atilla: Purplish violet colored flowers
• Barcelona: Fuschia purple colored flowers
• Blue Champion: Magnolia purple colored flowers
• Blue Ribbon: Lilac to purple colored flowers
• Dreaming Maid: Violet flowers with white edge
• Early Glory: Fuschia purple colored flowers
• Negrita: Deep blue to dark violet colored flowers
• Passionale: Dark purple colored flowers
• Prince Charles: Purple and violet colored flowers
• Purple Prince: Bright purple colored flowers
• Recreado: Deep purple flowers with delicate violet purple flame
• Sjakamaro: Deep purple colored flowers

Gardening Tips

Rather than purchasing those everlasting (Silk purple tulips), you can plant tulips in your own flower garden and rejoice by their existence and in your hard work in the blooming season of tulips. When it comes to planning purple tulip bulbs in garden, make sure you do that during fall season. Always avoid to add manure or compost at the time of plantation since, the tulip bulbs may rot. When it comes to placing the bulbs in soil, you need to make sure that you are putting them in a dig, which is at least twice in size as their diameter. You don't need to worry about plant growth and leaf rot even if your area tends to gets frosts in early spring. The leaves will withstand cold and the plants will get dead-headed, once the flowering season for tulips is over.

Purple tulips, when planted with white and yellow tulips, create a beautiful landscape design during their blooming season. However, since tulips are perennial, you need to combine them with some beautiful biennial plants, so that they can fill in the space that tulips left once their bloom fades away.