Amateur Gardening

What to plant with Tulips

NE of our most popular garden flowers, tulips have been delighting us for centuries. But despite what the song might have you believe, they were not, originally from Amsterdam. In fact, the first shipment of tulip bulbs arrived in the Belgian port of Antwerp in 1562, having travelled by sea

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