I highly recommend home gardeners interplant tulips with perennials such as peonies, poppies, iris, daylilies, hostas, black-eyed Susans and mums. This will create three seasons of color from early spring to late fall. There are no ugly tulips. Any color you choose will be fine, Vandervlugt said. But some colors look better together than others, he added.
Some people consider the color of their home when they choose the color of tulip bulbs.
My personal taste is not mixing colors, and planting them in groups. This is fine, but to mass tulips together in groups of like colors is more impressive. Forcing spring-flowering bulbs can provide spring color in cold winter months, Vandervlugt explained. Most bulbs require at least 12 to 15 weeks of cold treatment before they can bloom. To do this, place bulbs in pots of well-drained potting soil that have drainage holes in the bottom.