Today, many of these variegated tulips are bred for these streaks, and maintain consistent coloring across batches. However, in the 1600s when these variegated tulips first came into popularity, the ...

Tulip Breaking Virus was so named because it causes the color of a tulip to split, or break, with a lighter color appearing between the breaks. These variegated or broken tulips were highly ...

Nicknamed blue daisy for its lovely 1 1/2-inch, deep-blue flowers, this citizen of South Africa forms a sturdy 12- to 24-inch-tall sub-shrub that can spread almost twice as wide.

Size: The variegated tulip tree grows to 70 feet tall and 30 feet wide when mature. Where: Tulip trees prefer a location in full sun to light or open shade.

Tulipa `New Design’: A Triumph tulip, `New Design’ has white-edged leaves that have a touch of pink at the tips. The flush is picked up in the blooms, which appear in midspring, in a delicate ...

Begonias, cyclamens and pulmonarias are some examples of this. And finally, sometimes a variegated plant really is sick with disease, the culprit for its blotching and mottling.