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Tulips for beginners: everything you need to know

Tulip display at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire Credit: Keith Mayhew/Alamy As any experienced gardener will tell you, tulips are indispensable because they bridge the gap between spring and summer flowers. They bloom when the garden’s bathed in soft light, just as the first foliage of the year begins to expand, and you don’t need to spend a fortune. A well-placed container or two will lift a garden, like a rainbow of hope illuminating a Pre-Raphaelite painting by Sir John Everett Millais. When to order Many beginner gardeners can’t understand why, when gardens are full of tulips in spring, they can’t buy them in the garden centre. OK, you may find a few in pots that you can quickly tuck into a container or even the ground for instant colour but, as with all spring bulbs, the work starts a year ahead. So, here s how to plan for a beautiful spring.

Go wild this spring: Mix delicate wildflowers with showy border plants

Go wild this spring: Mix delicate wildflowers with showy border plants
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The top 10 snowdrop varieties to plant in your garden

Clumps of early snowdrops make for a stunning early spring display in any garden  Credit:  Getty Images Every year, headline-grabbing snowdrops change hands on eBay for enormous sums. In February 2015, Joe Sharman’s deliberately bred and appropriately named ‘Golden Fleece’ went for an eye-watering £1,390. But, as I know to my cost, an expensive snowdrop is not necessarily a good garden plant. Some resolutely refuse to bulk up, making more impact on your bank balance than on your garden. And demand constantly outstrips supply, so the price never comes down. I’ve had just two bulbs of Galanthus nivalis ‘Flocon de Neige’, a six-petalled snowdrop, for years. I have also grown the pixie-hatted

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