Large flowers of true luminous scarlet (warm) red, 12-14" tall. Stems are a little short for cut flower use, but this is an excellent gar...Read Moreden plant.
Like the other Fosteriana tulips, this blooms early, during daffodil season (April here in Boston Z6a). The cooler weather helps it last longer than the later-blooming tulips.
It's an excellent perennial and naturalizer here, where most tulips peter out in a year or two. (Tulips require a dry summer rest, and here in Boston Z6a we get too much summer rainfall for most tulips to perennialize. Summer irrigation can make tulips rot.)
These were my father's favorite tulip. I remember them growing up in Denver, CO. That was in the 1950s-60s. Whenever I them I am reminded...Read More of my father who so loved them.
Albany (again), NY (Zone 5b) | April 2010 | positive
Zone 5 - Albany, NY - long winters.
SPRING IS HERE!!!!
Come early April - these come screaming out of the g...Read Moreround, bright red. No, they're not the precise well behaved tulips that grace elegant beds. They're gaudy and I love 'em.
I live in a city where there are quite a few tulips, but few grow the red emperor, for whatever reason. With my clusters of bright red, we look like the painted whore in the neighborhood. *ha!* - 2 years running, I've had colleagues at work comment: OMG, I saw your tulips - they look wonderful.
If you want to put the first cheerful welcome to spring in the neighborhood, highly recommend.
I live in Accokeek Maryland (just south of Washington DC, USA). I planted 30 red emperors last fall (2006) and they were amazing in sprin...Read Moreg 2007. When the sun hits them they glow and shimmer. The blooms lasted about three weeks. I planted them in an area that gets about 3 to 4 hours of progressive afternoon sun. I prepped the bed with my Mantis tiller and added a few bags of top soil and miracle grow soil to amend the clay.
Waxhaw (Charlotte), NC (Zone 7b) | April 2005 | positive
One of the earliest and at the same time most beautiful tulips with really large flower heads. A real stunner. Highly recommended. One of...Read More my all time favorites. A very good perennializer in my area.
St. John's, NL (Zone 5b) | December 2004 | positive
This was one of the earliest fosteriana hybrids developed and it is still very popular today. Many of the new varieties that have been d...Read Moreeveloped have had 'Red Emperor' as the parent. The flowers are huge; among the largest of any tulip. The colour is blazing red with a black center and yellow ring. Long-lived and highly recommended.
Large flowers of true luminous scarlet (warm) red, 12-14" tall. Stems are a little short for cut flower use, but this is an excellent gar...Read More
These were my father's favorite tulip. I remember them growing up in Denver, CO. That was in the 1950s-60s. Whenever I them I am reminded...Read More
Zone 5 - Albany, NY - long winters.
SPRING IS HERE!!!!
Come early April - these come screaming out of the g...Read More
I live in Warman Saskatchewan and have had great results. Our Zone is a 2a to 2b and these come faithfully every year.
They bloom. What they are not is red. They are a sort of bubble gum pink.
If there is nothing else in the garden, these...Read More
I live in Accokeek Maryland (just south of Washington DC, USA). I planted 30 red emperors last fall (2006) and they were amazing in sprin...Read More
One of the earliest and at the same time most beautiful tulips with really large flower heads. A real stunner. Highly recommended. One of...Read More
This was one of the earliest fosteriana hybrids developed and it is still very popular today. Many of the new varieties that have been d...Read More
Bright fiery-red tulip. Fantastic when planted in large groups. Reaches a height of 16" and puts on a stunning display. Naturalizes well, too.