Tulip Slawa ® Bulbs

Has Tulip Slawa surpassed its parent strain of Gavota in popularity? Gavota has been such an iconic tulip for a very long time with its distinctive maroon and yellow markings. Tulip Slawa has inherited the markings but created a much more subtle and potentially useable flower when mixing with other colours.  

The key to mixing flowers

• Choose colours that harmonise
• Look carefully at the flowering time
• Select taller tulips and lift the bulbs if you are cutting them
• Mix groups such as double and single tulips to give a variety of textures and shapes

Tulip Slawa is a triumph tulip. It will flower in the middle of spring in late April along with other triumph tulips. 

It has a long stem of 40cm or more and sits nicely in the centre of beds or as part of a large container display.

Plant tulips in well draining soil. The bulbs do not like to sit in water over winter. You can add grit to your soil. We prefer a blend of compost, sand and topsoil for a healthy mix. 

Position in full sunlight, although they will look amazing in dappled sunlight through the sparse and emerging canopy of trees.