Planting Tulips with Muscari Video transcript
Hi, I'm Cheryl, Head Gardener at White Flower Farm. It's fall and it's bulb planting time! I'd like to show you how I plant one of my favorite bulb combinations... Tulips with Muscari (Grape Hyacinths).
The Muscari have a pretty long bloom time in the spring so they overlap bloom with lots of Tulip varieties. I like to pair up Tulip 'Prinses Irene' with Muscari armeniacum. This is one of my all-time favorite bulb combos. Let's plant it!
I've decided to plant my bulb combo in front of the shrub Physocarpus opulifolius Little Devil™. The dark color of the Ninebark's foliage will really set off the glowing orange Tulip 'Prinses Irene' and the steely blue of the Muscari. I use my garden fork to loosen up the soi where I'm going to plant... then I lay out my Tulips. I'm planting 50 Tulips spaced 5" apart or so... using a hand trowel, I plant the Tulips 6-7" deep.
The next step is to randomly spread out my Muscari bulbs directly over where I've just planted the Tulips. I'm putting out 100 bulbs. Then using the trowel, I plant them. Because the Muscari is a smaller bulb than the Tulips, It doesn't need to be planted as deep. Planting depth for these guys is about 4".
That's it! Planting done! I can't wait for spring to check out this cool combo!
We offer several varieties of Muscari in white and various shades of blue, and many more varieties of Tulips in a rainbow range of colors. Get creative, experiment, and put together your own pairs! This is an easy way to spice up your springtime bulb display!
