Four easy tulip collections

Choose from: Classic with a twist, Fortuny velvets, Rich and fruity, and a Whiter shade of pale. Designed exclusively for The Gardening Mind subscribers

I’ve brought forward this tulip post so that you can spend the next few autumnal evenings deciding what kind of feel, look and atmosphere you’d like your garden to have next Spring

(They’re for ordering now - do ensure that they don’t go into the ground before November though). These suggested combinations will work really well in pots, flowerbeds and borders: simply scroll down these four combinations I’ve put together and decide which one takes your fancy. Classic, calm, bedazzling and sumptuous, I’ve taken care to include a range of types of tulips so that there’ll be beautiful varieties in your garden right through the tulip season, and you can be sure they’ll bring colour from March till May: