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Poor showing of tulips
Nosmo King wrote:
Last fall I planted ~100 tulip bulbs of various types in different locations around the yard. About half have emerged. About a third of those have produced a flower. Needless to say, I'm disappointed. Do tulips take a year to get established ? I've also heard that the poor results may have been due to mild winter. I'm wondering if I just got a bunch of duds. Here in NC tulips: 1 get eaten as bulbs by animals 2. get eaten as plants by larger animals (deer) 3. do not come back reliably so they get worse (to zero!) every year 4. some species tulips will come back but even those are not so hot in Orange county 5. So the first year is the best you will get |
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Poor showing of tulips
According to Jeff Frelinger, tulips
1 get eaten as bulbs by animals 2. get eaten as plants by larger animals (deer) 3. do not come back reliably so they get worse (to zero!) every year 4. some species tulips will come back but even those are not so hot in Orange county 5. So the first year is the best you will get Strangely enough, I have a little batch of tulips that never did much--until this mild-winter year when they have more flower buds than ever. And one species tulips is better than ever. Otherwise, most of those I've planted, even those planted in wire cages to guard again #1, are gone. |
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