Mine weren't pink, just mucky looking fawn and brown on dirty cream.
I have some nice brown glazed pots with a red acer, heucheras in various browns and reds and some brown carex, so my usual tulips are purples and orange/brown with Princess Irene with the purple flash to tie them together. I like some of the browny oranges and thought this would link well, but not!
On the other hand, I loathe the look of tulip 'Icecream', def don't want to grow it!
I did grow Blumex, bit of a marmite one I guess, didn't know if I would love it or hate it. Didn't hate it, but don't love it enough to grow again.
I tried ice cream, but got a poor show. I like the peony flowers but in rain the heads get too heavy and they flop. The single flowers always put up with the usual bad weather a lot better.
In my Belgian garden - rich soil, wet winters - the only tulips that grew and flowered were the botanicals I put in the sunniest, driest beds. One year I planted over 300 of the taller hybrids and only 5 came up.
Don't like frilly, frothy or fancy tulips anyway and the ones with streaked petals and green bits just look sick to me.
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I mainly grow species tulips now but have quite a few small clumps of tall, plain yellow and fewer red which were growing here when I moved in, so have self-propagated for over 30 years. Surprisingly to me, a few peony-flowered types always appear, too and I haven't planted any of those for at least 5 years. Most of the hundreds of 'modern' types I've planted over the last decade are nowhere to be seen now, bar the odd one popping-up in the middle of a completely contrasting bunch of something else. 'Can't bring myself to pull them up, so a good job I garden "cottage style". Have the reverse problem with some narcissus though and will have to start digging up some of the more vigorous tall varieties which spend months just looking like a mat of untidy dying foliage. All of the 'Replete' are coming out - thugs which fall over after a small drink. Only planting dwarf types from now on!
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Don't like frilly, frothy or fancy tulips anyway and the ones with streaked petals and green bits just look sick to me.