Tulips Blooming

Posted on | May 9, 2011 | 9 Comments

I’m really happy I planted tulips last fall. Their lively pink and yellow blooms are really cute swaying in the early spring breeze. I picked up this collection of four different varieties from White Flower Farm. It seems a lot gardeners pull their tulips up after they bloom and replant in the fall. What do you do?

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9 Responses to “Tulips Blooming”

Stephanie
May 9th, 2011 @ 11:44 am
My mum never dug them up. If you leave them they will multiply. Just dead-head.
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mary
May 9th, 2011 @ 11:46 am
I keep mine in. Over the years you’ll notice the blooms will become smaller, and and then eventually they won’t bloom at all. Once they get to that point, that’s when you can dig up the spent bulb.
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Mary
May 9th, 2011 @ 12:05 pm
Yay for tulips! My new ones are making me happy this Spring (although Saturday’s hailstorm pummeled them). I leave mine in too.
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Ashley
May 9th, 2011 @ 12:09 pm
I wish I had some gardening advice to add, but it doesn’t look like you need it! Your blooms are lovely, Katy.
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Stephanie
May 9th, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
Be sure to deadhead after the blossoms are gone but leave the leaves to die back on their own. If you get no blossoms next year then dig them up and throw them out in the woods where in a year or two a marvelous bunch of tulips will surprise you. I love the varieties you picked–lovely colors.
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Mary
May 9th, 2011 @ 2:03 pm
Katy…My father taught me to deadhead them and leave them be for a few weeks or so…then tie the leaves/stem into a loose little knot (one per plant) and tamp it back into the soil/cover with soil. I’ve always done this with my few tuplips and they come back year after year after year.
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Roxane
May 9th, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
I have all my tulips & daffodils under trees, planted with hostas & allium so that as they die back the other plants hide them. :D
Periodically, I pull on the tulip stem to see if it’s ready to break off & then clear up the dead tulip leaves
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nanne
May 9th, 2011 @ 5:16 pm
tulips are just so very nice…they pop up when you think it will never be warm and again and let you know that spring really will come.

i plant mine in the beds flanking my front door, so treat them like annuals. pull them out (and pull the chicken wire up i put over them as squirrel deterant) when they are bloomed out and replace with my summer annuals.

nanne in indiana by way of alabama
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Katy Elliott
May 9th, 2011 @ 5:22 pm
Thanks everyone for all the input. I think I’ll probably try deadheading them and let them die back.
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