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Pink Impression Darwin Tulip

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SKU: AM003093
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Overview
This famous perennial tulip boasts enormous pink blooms that create a knockout statement in the spring garden. They are a pink favorite around the world and make beautiful cut flowers.
key features
Botanical Name
Tulipa Pink Impression
Advantages
Easy To Grow, Naturalizes, Cut Flowers, Container Planting
Growing Zones
Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8
Light Requirements
Full Sun, Half Sun / Half Shade
Soil Moisture
Dry, Average
Mature Height
20-22" tall
Bulb Spacing
9 per sq ft
Bloom Time
Mid spring
SKU
AM003093

Description

This is it. Just when everyone thought the Darwin Hybrids were already the largest-flowered tulips of all, the Dutch came up with even larger blooms with Pink Impression. It was introduced with great fanfare in 1979, and there have been some others added to the Impression Group' since. But this is the one known worldwide for incredibly large, plump blooms that are a knock-out in the garden each spring. Not to mention stupendous arrangements when they're cut. (But remember, if you want them to return as perennials, don't cut!)

About Darwin Hybrid Tulips: Early in the 20th Century, a talented Dutch hybridizer named Lefeber worked long and hard with a wild tulip called 'Tulipa fosteriana' from Central Asia. It is red, and from it, he hybridized the group that became known as the Emperor Tulips. The world-famous Red Emperor was introduced in 1931, and is what we now call a member of the 'Fosteriana Tulip' group. In fact, Red Emperor's official variety name is 'Madame Lefeber' in honor of the original hybridizer's wife.

Even though the Red Emperor and other fosterianas were instant sensations, the hybridizers were not satisfied. They were fascinated by what were then called simply 'Darwin Tulips'. These were large-flowered tulips in clear colors on tall stems, but without any perennial qualities. The Emperors, being close to a wild species, were quite perennial, so they crossed the two groups. And voila! Darwin Hybrid Tulips were born, with the best qualities of both groups.

Ever since, the Darwin Hybrids have set the standards worldwide for tall graceful, large flowered perennial tulips. Apeldoorn, the famous red tulip that is now No. 1 in the US, was introduced in 1951 by D. W. Lefeber and Company. There are not many Darwin Hybrids, even today. But they are every good gardener's favorites and always highly valued by florists.

In America's Top Ten list for popularity in the US, compiled by the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Centre, they list no less than three Darwin Hybrids, more than from any other group. Pink Impression is No. 6.