Squanklin wrote:

I, too, bought a house last year with lots of greenery on some tulips
but no blooms. This spring - late February or so - as the tulips were
pushing through the soil, I put out some gentle fertilizer in their bed
(10-10-10). They ended up blooming beautifully.

Don't know if the fertilizer helped, or if they were just off last
year. I plan to try the fertilizer again next year.

Good luck!

With true bulbs (tulips, daffodils, "Dutch" iris), the flowers are
formed inside the bulb during the previous year, before the foliage
dies. With bulb-like plants (bearded iris, glads, dahlias), the
flowers are formed as the plant sends up its flower stalks in the
spring or summer.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at URL:http://www.rossde.com/garden/