The 'Peggy Wonder' is worth growing in the showcase garden spots. Its extravagant presence and rich layers of petals will stun your garden visitors. The flowers delight with a mixture of green, pink and light purple on the outside, while the inner part sports various shades of pastel pink that turn paler towards the centre. The light golden anthers stick out from in-between the petals. Every stem of this energizing tulip bears more than one bud. The variety owes its popularity as cut flower for bouquets and other compositions to this feature. The low height of ca. 30 cm and the marvellous large flowers should also encourage you to plant this variety in pots and other containers that you can expose in the garden or at the entrance to your home. The first flowers appear end of April.

Tulips do not belong to flowering plants that require any special growing conditions. You only need to learn and follow some basic rules in order to enjoy the flowering plants. The plants in question are rather undemanding in regard to the soil, provided it is not to moist and not to loamy. Tulips prefer soft, fertile, properly cultivated and fertilized soils. The compost proves to be the most effective tulip food, as the plants will pay you back for it with large flowers. Should a site not meet tulip expectations, you may try to improve the soil. Loosen heavy soils with an admixture of sand and enhance the sandy ones with humus and compost. Tulips require sunlight, but a few hours of shade per day will not hurt them. The water requirements of tulips are considered moderate. Do not let the soil, in which they grow, dry out though. Start fertilizing tulips when their shoots reach a height of about 5 cm. This moment usually falls on March. Apply nitrogen-rich agents, because plants will use this element as a building block.

Tulip bulbs must be planted in autumn only, when the soil temperature drops to 10 to 12°C. Make sure during planting that the planting depth equals two times the height of a bulb - usually it is from 8 to 15 cm. Pour some sand, then compost and high quality soil into the hole before putting the bulb in. Place the bulb tip up, cover with soil, press it gently and water. We recommend to spread some mulch over the planting site before the winter. It will protect the bulbs from the frost and limit weed development and drying of the soil. This treatment is not absolutely necessary, yet highly recommended. Tulips may grow 3 to 4 years on the same site. After that time we recommend to dig the bulbs out, divide them and transfer to another place. This cultivation method ensures that the vigorous healthy plants will bloom exuberantly.

One package contains 50 bulbs of the Peggy Wonder tulip. Basic plant facts and growing instructions were printed on the package level.

• Variety: Peggy Wonder
• Use: ornamental - flower beds, borders, planters, cut flower
• Flower colour: green-pink-light purple
• Vegetation form: perennial
• Site: sunny or partial shade; medium heavy, loam-sandy, permeable soil rich in nutrients and organic matter
• Bulbs: 50
• Height: 30 cm
• Flowering period: April - May
• Planting period: autumn
• Planting depth (cm): 8 to 15 cm
• Wintering in the ground?: yes