I love that rich royal color. My tulips are on the verge of opening and I can hardly wait to post a pic.
I just love tulips Toni. I've never seen one in real life...we don't have temperature accommodations for them. I think they are some of the most beautiful flowers ever.
Texas tulips Tulips just do not do well in Texas. Our Winters are too warm &, I've been told, the bulbs react to the warmth, then when it gets cold again, they stunt and end up wasting energy reacting to fake Spring temperatures, only to have no energy to bloom when it's time. If you want tulips, you have to plant new bulbs every year - after keeping them in the fridge for weeks & weeks, or lift what you planted after they've bloomed & stick them in the fridge for the Summer, then plant in late Fall. It's too much bother, so I just don't mess with them. If I ever have a fridge I can devote to tulips & other bulbs, I'll plant them again, but not until that time.
I might just keep these bulbs for the green they provide at the end of winter next year. They were kept in the fridge from Sept when I bought them until January when I figured I had better get them planted to see what would come up. The city that borders mine planted daffs and tulips in the medians then planted Asian Jasmine ground cover several years ago and every year the daffs and tulips come up thru the ground cover....I was hoping to have that kind of luck too. Oh, well. Think I will stick with different colored Iris, I like them better anyway.
Very pretty. I had some bad luck with the tulips that are not the usual colors and shapes. I would plant them and then in the next season nothing...I think anything that they mess with doesn't come back for me. One year I had all the ones that look like peonies and the next year nothing came back...so I just buy the normal ones or I guess you might call them old fashioned ones..
