Lady Tulip 'Lady Jane' (Tulipa clusiana)

Lady Tulip 'Lady Jane': A Graceful Bicolor Species Tulip

Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' is a charming cultivar of the lady tulip, featuring slender, candle-like flowers that are rosy-red on the outside and pure white on the inside, with a small yellow base. In sunlight, the flowers open wide to a perfect star, revealing the crisp white interior. The narrow, gray-green foliage is attractive even before bloom. It flowers in mid-spring.

Garden Performance

Like other T. clusiana forms, 'Lady Jane' is perennial and naturalizes well in well-drained soil with a dry summer dormancy. Plant bulbs in autumn in full sun. Ideal for rock gardens, front of borders, or between stepping stones. The flowers close at night and on cloudy days, showing off the colored exteriors.

Taxonomy

• Family: Liliaceae
• Genus: Tulipa
• Species: clusiana
• Cultivar: 'Lady Jane'