Angelique Tulip

Tulipa 'Angelique'

flower

Angelique is a double late, or peony-flowered, tulip that fools people into thinking it is a peony. Each bloom is packed with layers of soft, ruffled petals in pale rose-pink that fade to nearly white at the edges, with a light, pleasant fragrance, carried on 16 to 18 in. stems. It flowers late in the tulip season, extending the show after the early and mid-season tulips finish, and its full, romantic, blowsy blooms are prized for cottage gardens, containers, and wedding-style arrangements. Like most double tulips it is best treated as a relatively short-lived perennial, often replanted every year or two for the best display.

✅ Plant alongside

Good neighbors that attract beneficial insects or deter pests

• Pansy — Underplanting of cool-season color that complements the soft-pink doubles and covers bare ground
• Sweet Alyssum — Low fragrant carpet that fills between the stems and echoes the soft palette
• Forget-Me-Nots — A classic blue haze beneath pink double tulips for a cottage-garden effect

🛡️ Pest & disease prevention

Proactive ways to stop trouble before it starts — tap a name with an arrow for its full guide

• Squirrels and chipmunks →

  Protect newly planted bulbs with wire mesh over the bed, or interplant with rodent-resistant daffodils

• Deer →

  Browse the lush buds - use repellents or plant near the house, and mix in deer-resistant bulbs

• Aphids →

  Hose colonies off emerging shoots and buds and support natural predators

• Botrytis (tulip fire) →

  A fungal blight worse in wet, crowded plantings - ensure airflow and drainage, remove distorted scorched foliage, and do not replant tulips in the same spot every year

🌸 Blooms & cutting

Cut Angelique for the vase in the cool morning when the buds are colored but not fully open, and the heavy doubles will unfurl into lush, peony-like blooms indoors. Use a clean vase and cold water and recut the stems; the flowers keep growing and opening, so they make a dramatic, changing arrangement. In the garden, deadhead the spent flowers so energy goes to the bulb, but leave the foliage to yellow and die back naturally if you hope for a return next spring.

🥗 Nutrition & benefits

Like other showy hybrid tulips, the double-flowered Angelique is an ornamental rather than a wildlife plant; its packed petals make nectar and pollen largely inaccessible, so it offers little to bees. Its value is ornamental - a fragrant, luxurious, late-season cut flower and border tulip with the look of a peony. As with all tulips, the bulbs are toxic if eaten.

⚠️ Toxicity & safety

Tulip bulbs are the most poisonous part - and the flowers, leaves, and roots contain it too - holding tulipalin and glycoproteins that cause stomach pain, drooling, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea if eaten, in people and in dogs, cats, and horses. Handling the bulbs can also cause an itchy allergic skin reaction known as 'tulip fingers.' Grown strictly as an ornamental; do not eat any part.