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The cheerful Tulipa ‘Mickey Mouse’ cultivar is a bright and bold hybrid with small but early blooming flowers. Its yellow, cup shaped flowers are streaked with a deep red, adding colour to borders.
Tulips are best planted in November as this minimises the risk of attack from the fungal disease, tulip fire, which causes the foliage to become distorted and covered with fuzzy, grey fungal growth and the flowers to either fail to open or to be marked with bleached spots. Any bulbs that become infected with this disease are best thrown away and the ground they were planted in should not be used to grow any tulips for several years.
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Tulipa ‘Mickey mouse’ and wildlife
Tulipa ‘Mickey mouse’ has no particular known value to wildlife in the UK.
