The Perch Hill tulip mix | why Sarah loves this

It's a beautiful morning this morning. I just heard a cuckoo which is always such an exciting moment and I thought I'd talk you through our Perchel tulip mix because it's one of my absolute favorites. It's got three tulips in it and really honestly we first put it down this main alleyway, our sort of aisle, in the annual cutting garden 10 years ago. And you can still see that some of them are coming up. So there's Ballerina, which you'll see all the way through in front of me. And that's one of my tip-top favorite tulips. It's scented of freesias and it's really tall and elegant and a beautiful color. It's in the lily flowered group and it's very perennial as you can see because I mean I don't know how many bulbs we put in but a lot of them are still here. And then the next one in it is this one called Doll's Minuet. You can see it's the same sort of shape so it's also in the lily flowered group but what What I notice about it is that it's got a green flash. in the outer petal and I think that must mean it's got a little bit of the Viridiflora group bred into it which is what makes it triply perennial so that's been coming up for years and then a really lovely double so-called peony flowered and it's glossy like a sort of luscious black racehorse that's what it always reminds me of. I just completely adore it. It's slightly later than the other two so it's just coming now but they're Totally and utterly beautiful. Beautiful in the vase, beautiful in the garden and really perennial.