Can you even call it spring time without tulips blooming in the garden? Definitely not. Well its almost time to plant your bulbs now before it is too late, best planted mid to late Autumn, for spring blooming. Most people think that the tulips will keep growing over and over again every year if they plant them in the ground, but that is not true. Tulips do not come back from bulbs that are planted a few inches down into the soil.
If you want to get your tulips to grow back, you have to actually plant them in pots with holes at the bottom so the bulb can grow out of it. Don’t plant it too deep though or else it won’t grow. Best planted at 20cms depth and with 5cm spacing. You also need to make sure that they get plenty of water. If you followed all this information properly, then I am sure you will have beautiful blooming tulips next spring.
Plant your tulip bulb in a sunny yet sheltered spot, in autumn or late spring when the bulb is dormant.If you plant in summer, water it frequently (and even twice a day). If you plant in winter, do not water it until spring comes.
When the foliage begins to generate in early summer, keep it moist at all times; then only water every two weeks after that. In autumn, cut off dead flowers and foliage using proper gardening sheers from your kitchen for easy cleaning.
In October/November you can dig up your growing tulip bulb with a shovel by pulling on its flower stalk while digging down next to the bulb, and replant in a fresh pot ready for next April/May time. Alternatively you can buy new tulip bulbs online and start planting from scratch.
Plant as many bulbs as you can, with the right spacing and depth and you will have a garden full of beautiful tulips of a variety of colours. The tulip is a bulb full of flowers that grow during the spring and summer, and generally die off in the autumn, although some may still hang around longer. Keep them moist to start with, then water once every 2 weeks or so after that for them to be replanted and flower again the following year. Make sure that you do not plant them too deep or they will not flower, and cover with at least 10cm of soil but preferably 20cms deep for best results.
After the flowers have started to die off, cut off the stalk of each flower so that new leaves can grow. Although you can see these growing out of the ground, this is actually only half the tulip – its roots are still stored in bulb underground. Dig up each one individually so as not to break any apart then replant into fresh pot with compost until April next year, when you should begin to see tiny shoots emerge from the bulbs again. These need lots of warmth and water to encourage them to grow strong enough to flower, but be careful never to over-water as they tend to rot easily.