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Comment by Joseph Wright on April 3, 2012 at 9:05pm

My parot tulips are blooming early, but I'm happy!:)

Comment by Joseph Wright on April 3, 2012 at 9:00pm

Hi new friends, lot's happening in the garden! Found your group & since i love tulips I thought I join! :)

Comment by josie demarco on March 8, 2012 at 6:22pm

My husband proposed to me in a tulip field. He placed my ring inside a sweetheart tulip (yellow with white tips below)way out in a field then asked me to look closer at the flower, upon which I found my ring. He had  my band shaped into beautiful tulip leaves and the stone on top's the flower. I said yes of course! Afterwards he went out and bought me the flowers and the bulbs. The bulbs we planted just outside the door before he carried me across the threshhold. It was a wonderful day. 

Comment by josie demarco on March 8, 2012 at 6:13pm

Comment by Zigmund Cieplinski on July 20, 2011 at 4:37pm

This is a good buy for great Tulips I bought them last year and was very pleased. These are perennial tulips and increase each year, not fade out as the years go by.

http://brecks.com/product.asp?pn=83748&sid=0730536&eid=0719...

Comment by Zigmund Cieplinski on May 17, 2011 at 9:55pm

Joanne she had to resend it, it got lost somewhere, here is her response: Hello Ziggie! I thought that I answered this a week back or so but don't see the message sent so maybe I didn't hit reply.... Anyway, the yellow are more dominate than the red -the yellow are the strongest of all flowers because they have the most color in it-purple has the least-even yellow flowers are generally stronger smelling than red... They do fade over the years or the yellow are just pushing them out because they can even when the bulbs look good. I have a group of tulips that look great one year, poor the next and then great the year after that...I think many flowers look good every other year and don't understand it..They use so much energy to bloom incredibly and then take a year off. Just like us... I would leave them and see what happens. They do die of old age as well but usually regenerate... Hope that helps! From Yolanda!

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Some of the other things I do is, I fert the bulb areas in the late fall because when I dig them up to replant some they are already putting out roots in Late Oct/ Nov. I also feed them in the spring as they start to grow, and I will give them a shot of miracle grow as soon as the rain stops on us in Ohio, this is after the flowers fall off. Also I do not cut the leaves off till they are dying off, this feeds the bulbs for next year’s flowers. Ziggie

Comment by Joanne Williams on May 17, 2011 at 7:11pm

Zigmund, any news yet from your friend? I pulled the red tulips but not the yellow ones and I am not sure what to do.

Comment by Zigmund Cieplinski on May 12, 2011 at 6:57pm

Kristi if they are not sold as perenial they usualy are not since they are a bit more expensive. Check out the Brecks link below and they have quite a few perenial Tulips and they are all marked. I am waiting for a reply from a bulb person on the west coast, on your problem, I have a few ideas but want to make shure. 

Contributing Gardener Comment by Kristi Emanuelson z5 CO on May 12, 2011 at 6:04pm

Zigmund,  I planted Van Bloem tulips.. thought these were perennial tulips. Do you know? The packaging dosn't say one way or anther...

Thands for the information.

Kristi

Comment by Joanne Williams on May 12, 2011 at 5:18pm

Forgot to mention, 2 of the yellow ones died off quick and the leaves turned red but the rest are still in bloom and the leaves are green.

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