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How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Tulip Flowers
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Yes, you can transplant them anytime after their foliage has died back. At that point, they are done gathering energy for next year’s blooms and can be moved!
Once blooms have passed and leaves are dead, do I dig up the bulbs and store for next fall? Can my tulip bed be used for other flowers or vegetables?
Tulips, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinth, and several others are winter-hardy bulbs, meaning that they can (and should) remain in the ground through winter. They need a period of cold weather (winter) to encourage them to bloom in the spring.
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My tulips have now finished flowering. Waiting for leaves to die down I have noticed that four of them have something that looks as if it has a seed pod where the flower was. Is it worth taking them off and planting them ?
You can deadhead tulips after flowering and remove seed pods. Technically, you could grow tulips from seed, however, it’s a lot of work and also most tulips are hybrids so the tulips will not look like the original tulip you grew.
I rec'd tulips from my daughter. My question is. Am I ble to transplant them into the ground? The leaves are starting to fall & stems are getting yellow.
Transplanting bulbs outdoors after blooming can be hit or miss, but it’s worth trying! Get them in the ground as soon as possible and feed them with a bit of fertilizer to encourage growth. The foliage will die back on its own, but if the bulb is able to establish itself, it will come back next spring.
Either deer or rabbits have attacked my tulips as the sprouted from the ground. Will they still bloom or are they lost for this season?
Hi, Lillie, So sorry to hear this; we have had this same experience and in our cases, it has been bunnies. It’s not possible to know now if your tulips will bloom; it depends somewhat on how much of the foliage was consumed and maybe on the size and health of the bulb. You’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, you may find solace–and a few solutions–here https://www.almanac.com/pest/rabbits