Red Impression is a Darwin Hybrid tulip that brings bold, vibrant red blooms to spring gardens across zones 3-10. These sturdy plants reach 18-22 inches tall and flower 80-89 days after fall planting, making them reliable performers whether you're creating a formal bed display or filling containers with color. The mid to late spring blooms arrive when the garden needs them most, and this hybrid's strength comes from careful cross-breeding designed to deliver consistent, impressive flowers year after year.
Full Sun
Moderate
3-10
22in H x ?in W
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Red Impression tulips produce rich red flowers on tall, upright stems that command attention in any planting scheme. They thrive in full sun and transition seamlessly from garden beds to container displays, making them adaptable to nearly any spring landscape plan. As a Darwin Hybrid, this variety combines the vigor and reliability of its parent lines, flowering reliably in zones as cold as 3 and performing even in zones 9 and 10 when grown from pre-cooled bulbs.
Red Impression tulips are grown as ornamental spring flowers for garden beds and container displays. Their tall, upright stems and vibrant red color make them particularly suited to formal landscape designs, cut flower arrangements, and mass plantings where visual impact is desired.
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Plant bulbs outdoors in fall, 6 inches apart and at a depth of approximately 6-8 inches, in full sun locations. Bulbs should be in the ground before the first hard freeze to allow root establishment before winter dormancy.
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“Red Impression is a Darwin Hybrid tulip, a classification that emerged from deliberate crosses between Darwin tulips and Tulipa fosteriana species. This hybridization program aimed to create tulips with greater strength, larger flowers, and improved vigor compared to their parent varieties. The result was a class of tulips known for reliable performance and consistent blooming, with Red Impression representing the successful application of this breeding work to deliver gardeners a dependable red-flowering cultivar.”