All About Flowers

Never cut back the foliage on bulb flowers. The leaves are used to make food to be stored in the bulb for next years growth. If you remove the leaves it reduces the strength of the bulb. If you continue to do it each year the bulbs will be weak and prone to didease, plus the flowers will be poorer. If you want to plant something else, plant just in front of the tulips. Perennials are best as they are beginning to grow strongly just as tulips are fading. The perennial growth will soon hide the unsightly tulip leaves. Remember that you should add ... Read Full Story

Take them out of the water…..let them dry out. Keep them in a dry place, can be your garage or basement pretty much anywhere. (Place them in a brown paper bag after they are good and dried out) Next fall plant them….next spring you will have your tulips again! Some people dig their bulbs each year and replant in the fall, but they will do fine year after year just leaving them in the ground. Good Luck!! Read Full Story

Got some tulip bulbs, but not realy into planting them. Noticed they smell like onions. Can they be eaten or substituted as onions? Any suggested recipes? Read Full Story

Do you have to dig them up every year?I had a problem with dear eating my tulips.What is a good flowering shrub,that will attract humming birds and butterflys?I live in Michigan. Read Full Story

This is an experience I believe most gardeners must go through. They want their place to look like the bulb catalog, and it seems so easy, plant once and the bulb comes back every spring right where it’s supposed to. The sad truth is that Tulips are absolutely stunning, just like their pictures, the first year, and then the next year you might get a smattering of inferior blossoms, and by the third you might see 3 or 4 leaves in the entire planting. There are species Tulips that allegedly return year after year, but this is also a gamble because mice enjoy them ... Read Full Story