'Bloody Ploughman' Apple Tree Tulip 'The First' yellow and red

yellow and red

ranking H5 on the RHS hardiness scale

contrast beautifully with the plant's strappy

They are a sturdy bloom and make excellent cut flowers due to their beauty and long-lasting blooms

look at it

'Bloody Ploughman' Apple Tree Tulip 'The First' yellow and redThere are origin stories And then there's 'Bloody Ploughman' The tale goes a little something like this: back in the 1800s, a Scottish ploughman was caught by a trigger happy gamekeeper while scrumping apples from the Megginch Estate. The groundsman promptly put a bullet through the ploughman, ending his life. Combing through the dead man's clothes when his body was returned, the ploughman's wife found a few of the plundered apples stashed away within