Historic Tulip Collection

Polly Nicholson holds the National Collection of Historic Tulips, comprising around 50 cultivars dating back to the 16th century. Although we grow every kind of tulip at Bayntun Flowers, including many of the smaller, perennial species, it is historic tulips that really make the pulse quicken. The National Collection comprises a small but growing number of the most rarefied historics—English Florists’ tulips—as well as the cultivars known as Dutch Breeder, Broken and Dutch Florists’ tulips.