Can flowers really make your life more fun? Yes, of course, flowers make your life more fun. They ignite at least three of the five senses: vision, touch, and scent. All five senses can be ignited by flowers, if you’re really creative. With the knowledge that flowers make your life more fun, it’s a fact that double-blooming flowers can make your life even MORE fun!

How do double-blooming flowers make your life more fun? Double-blooming flowers are flowers with double the number of petals as the traditional single-flowering types. Daring double bloomers up the ante on the visual sense. Double-blooming flowers can be highly fragrant, like peonies, some double tulips, double daffodils, and double hyacinths. Ranunculus flowers are a classic double-blooming type; their papery petals often look fake, and sometimes you just have to touch them to make sure they are real. Want to double the fun in your garden? Continue reading to find out more about my favorite double-blooming spring flowers.

Best Double Tulips and Double Daffodils

Double-blooming flowers can be found in other seasons besides spring. However, spring is the season for double-blooming tulips and double daffodils to shine!

Favorite Double Flowering Tulip Bulbs to Plant in Fall

Choosing a favorite or the best double-flowering tulip is not an easy task. They are ALL showy, abundant, and full of life. However, if I had to pick just a few to plant in my garden, I would choose these 5 double tulips as my favorites:

• Finola Double Tulip
  • I love the soft pink blooms on Finola. This late-blooming variety is also fragrant, which adds to the appeal.
• Black Hero Double Tulip
  • Dark purple, nearly black flowers are in high demand. Their rare and mysterious blooms stand out with lighter colors like white, pink, and yellow. Black Hero Double Tulips are double late-blooming tulips, which bloom last with the single late tulips, parrot tulips, and fringed tulips.
• Danceline Double Tulip
  • This double bloomer will have you doing a do-si-do in the garden. You’ll be dancing all the way down the garden path to view the showy white flowers, which are accented with raspberry-pink accents. Danceline Double Tulip is a late-blooming tulip.
• Vaya Con Dios Double Tulip
  • Yellow and peach petals have fringed petals on this heavenly selection of tulips.
• Copper Image Double Tulip
  • Fragrance and beauty combine in Copper Image Double Tulip. The peony-like flowers have shades of peach, pink, apricot, and gold all in the same flower. The showy and unique blooms are also fragrant, which makes this double-blooming tulip a winner!

Best Double Daffodil Bulbs

Daffodils are the beacon of spring. They are some of the first flowers to appear after the snow has melted. When those yellow trumpets of bloom flower, it’s a good sign that spring has arrived for good. Traditional yellow daffodils aren’t the only game in town. There is definitely more to the daffodil world than the standard classics, and that includes double daffodils.

Five Essential Double Daffodils to Plant This Fall For Spring Blooms

Double daffodils play an important role in the spring landscape. Whether they have large, showy double blooms or an abundance of dainty, smaller blooms, double daffodils are a unique garden treat.

• Tahiti Double Daffodil
  • This popular double daffodil has golden yellow double blooms with orange accents in the center. Tahiti Double Daffodil is fragrant, deer resistant, and has strong, sturdy stems that hold up in spring weather conditions.
• Bridal Crown Daffodil
  • Blooming late in the daffodil bloom season, florists and cut-flower growers love Bridal Crown Daffodil. The white blooms with golden centers are smaller but plentiful, with 3-4 flowers per stem. Bridal Crown Daffodil has a compact growth habit of 8-14″ tall. The stems are sturdy and perfect for bouquets and arrangements, as well as in the garden.
• My Story Double Daffodil
  • Every flower has a story to tell, and this flower’s story involves double the petals. Large showy blooms are white with soft pink centers. Deer resistant and perennial means this daffodil will tell it’s story for a long time.
• Erlicheer Daffodil
  • Step back! This is what you will need to do when overwhelmed by the bounty of blooms and fragrance of this double daffodil. Each flower stem bears 6-10 fully double white blooms. The fragrance will fill the room with a sweet scent. Plant in bunches of 3-5 bulbs per hole for the most floriferous appearance!
• Modern Art Daffodil
  • A sight to behold! Modern Art Daffodil is a work of art with its golden yellow blooms and ruffled double orange centers. Grow in a border or use as a cut flower, this deer-resistant beauty is a must-have for the art collector or daffodil collector!

Best Double Blooming Flowers! Part Deux

If you are of a certain age, you may be familiar with the satirical comedy Hot Shots! Part Deux. Well, hold onto your horses to prepare for Double the Fun with Double Blooming Flowers! Part Deux coming to a Bulb Blog near you!

When I started writing this blog post, I intended to write about peonies, ranunculus, and double hyacinths as well. However, as I got further into the writing, I realized there was just too much to cover on double-flowering tulips and daffodils. And I didn’t even scratch the surface of all the lovely varieties of double tulips and daffodils. Fitting it into one blog without overwhelming you, my dear reader, was a tall order. Therefore, part two of this blog will arrive by fall with some of my favorite double-flowering peonies, ranunculus, and hyacinths.