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identifying theseWhite Tulip bulbs

TadsTads Posts: 210
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Hi everyone 🙋‍♀️
I successfully planted heaps of these fabulous tulips, just masses of them, last year in my daughter’s back garden in Chilworth, a small village just 2m from Guildford.  They stood so tall & straight & important looking & handsome, & were such a success.   Everybody admired them & simply loved a “white garden”:  (they even got her husband’s praise too 🤗) - it’s the best it’s ever looked in the last 12 years, they said, 😊 they were so happy with it.  
Charlie just fell in love with her “white garden” - so much so that we planted a white summer garden this year too !  In a small garden, “all-white-flowers” can have a magical effect ✨✨✨
So now we are planning for our winter & spring garden, but stupidly I can’t find my order, or remember the name of these white tulips I planted.  I most particularly wanted these especially large heads, which is what gave the real wow factor, so I’d like to buy the same variety again.  Can any kind member please help me by identifying them from the above photo? that would be a kindness, Thankyou 😊 

as well, have you any suggestions for white flowering plants for a winter garden, leading into springtime .  (Bulbs I suppose?)  All & any members suggestions will be most gratefully received. Oh, all the planting is in pots around the back garden patio & perimeter too....have just replaced the lobelia & petunia with white pansies & white cyclamen, to keep us going 😊 
thankyou for reading this, Tads 😊

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Magnolia stellata? Lovely in late spring. I grow mine in a large pot. 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    edited September 2018
    Snowdrops are a must!
    There are also quite a few nice white daffodils, some are very striking.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    edited September 2018
    Could be purissima. I had these in a garden once and they came up every year looking just as good, but they were in the ground and planted deeply 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    You can get white versions of Pulmonaria, Brunnera  and Dicentra (now called something else I think) white alliums, hyacinths, scillas and Muscari (Siberian Tiger is a good one) and white Triteleia, less common but very pretty. Tulip 'White Triumphator ' is a favourite of mine for a different shape.
    Geranium macrorhizum flowers fairly early - 'Ness' is the whitest one and there are white Primula denticulata too...
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Can you remember which company you ordered from?  I have been able to track plants I have lost info about with an enquiry to the company .....Hayloft were even able to tell me what aster I had bought 5 years earlier 😃. Their filing system is obviously more effective than mine.

    Hope you find them, because that display is stunning 😎
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    They look lovely! :) This is a colour scheme I would love in my garden...

  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    If anyone is ever near Cranborne in Dorset, Cranborne Manor has a stunning "WhiteGarden" among other lovely planting there.
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Be careful with white, though, it can be a bit addictive.
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