T. 'Little Beauty' is a dwarf tulip, to 12cm high, with blue green, strap-like foliage and single flowers in spring. Flowers have an unus...Read Moreual colour banding along the tepals; dark purple centres fade to light purple edged with a thin band of light pink with the majority of the top petal being crimson-red.
Received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM) of the British Royal Horticultural Society in 1997.
This cultivar is hybridized by Van Lierop & Sons;
Registration: 1991.
Really liked this Tulip. It has a sorta prehistoric air about it. Mine grew very close to the ground. And sent out 4 leaves in pinwhee...Read Morel fashion. Ok I like offbeat and wierd so I am not sure they are for everyone but for me they were the cutest things. Now what I am not sure of is how they will do for next year. Very few of my tulips perennialize. And last year I tried to grow Albocaerulea Oculata Group and not only did it fail to bloom for me last year, it did not return. Hopefully these little guys do.
I would rate the species Tulip 'Little Beauty' neutral at best. I knew the flowers would be small, but they were smaller than I expected...Read More, and bloomed for a very short period of time. Kaufmanniana and greigii tulips are supposed to be some of the better tulips for the South, so I ordered 'Shakespeare', 'Red Riding Hood', 'Little Beauty', and 'Hearts Delight'. Of these four, 'Shakespeare' was by far the most showy and had very long-lasting brilliant red blooms. At the end of the blooming period, I actually pulled the others up and put them in the compost pile. I will order more 'Shapespeare', but must wait another year or two to see if they really do come back and bloom year after year in north Alabama.
This tulip is vigorous and indestructible, almost to the point of invasive. It's also gorgeous. I have a large planter with these that ...Read Morehas to be thinned every 2-3 years, and I just plant all the extras out in my rocks/clay in front. They all come up, and they all bloom.
T. 'Little Beauty' is a dwarf tulip, to 12cm high, with blue green, strap-like foliage and single flowers in spring. Flowers have an unus...Read More
Really liked this Tulip. It has a sorta prehistoric air about it. Mine grew very close to the ground. And sent out 4 leaves in pinwhee...Read More
I would rate the species Tulip 'Little Beauty' neutral at best. I knew the flowers would be small, but they were smaller than I expected...Read More
This tulip is vigorous and indestructible, almost to the point of invasive. It's also gorgeous. I have a large planter with these that ...Read More