Questions tagged [tulips]

Flowering perennial herbaceous bulbiferous plants, Genus "Tulipa" species, varieties, cultivars, and hybrids.

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Tulips have small leaves and do not flower

In my garden I preserve some "wild" tulips. I say "wild" because they were planted many years ago by some ancestor of mine, I believe around late 1700-beginning of 1800. They are of a quite raw quality, not as beautiful as modern hybrids. They have…
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How deep should I plant tulip offsets?

I grew a number of tulips this spring (planted last autumn). I believe I was too late with some of them and/or planted them too shallowly, and as a result many grew poorly and split into a large number of offsets. I've broken down the bulbs, thrown…
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Tulip Regeneration

Happy Mother's Day. I suspect a Mother somewhere is enjoying my Tulips. Overnight, someone clipped and made off with my bloomed tulips. Q: will they bloom again this year? It's my first year with this garden. I'm in US Zone 7.
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