Tulips care

Tulips care

Nov

5

Planting tulip bulbs

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How to plant tulip bulbs?

Planting tulip bulbs below flower bulbs

flower bulbs
From top to bottom:

  • crocus bulbs,
  • daffodil bulbs and
  • tulip bulbs (make sure to choose a late flowering tulip bulb).

If you have a small garden or a lot of flowers bulbs, you can plant the tulip bulbs above or below other flowers bulbs. You can aim for a chronological flowering like in the example on the left: first the crocus will flower, then the daffodils and then the tulips. Which means your spot will be flowering for weeks in a row with bulbs.

Of course you can use your own imagination: only the bulbs are the limit… Below a flowers bulb picture so you have an idea how which flower bulb will give which flowers during which period of spring.

 flower bulbs

View the above flower bulbs picture at large at: Spring flower bulb

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Oct

31

Planting tulip bulbs

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How to plant tulip bulbs?

Read how to plant a tulip bulb at: planting tulip bulb

Planting tulip bulbs in clusters

planting tulip bulbs

I love to plant tulip bulbs in clusters of odd numbers: 1 flower bulb in the middle surrounded by other flower bulbs. Especially 7, 9 or 11 tulip bulbs give a nice impression to the eye when seen from far.

More about planting tulip bulbs together in out next post.

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Oct

26

Planting Tulip Bulb

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It’s almost November: the ideal period for planting your tulip bulb. A tulip bulb needs a cold period in order to make flowers:

  • temperatures between 40 to 50 degrees F (5 to 10 degrees C)
  • for 3 to 3 and a half months

When to plant tulip bulb ?

As soon as the temperatures wont go above 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). This means November or December if you live in the northern hemisphere, yet "consult" your local climate.

How to plant tulip bulb ?

planting tulip bulb

Planting a bulb goes by the following rule of thumb:

  • 1 to 3 times as deep as the size of the flower bulb.

For a tulip bulb, I like to plant them in a hole, 2 times as deep as the tulip bulb. This means: the hole you dig should be able to fit 2 tulip bulbs placed on each other.

How far to plant tulip bulb?

Again no need to learn by heart, just use your common sense: the width of your plant is how far you will minimally plant 2 plants away, so they have just enough space to live.

  • Planting them closer will make your tulip bulbs look like a tulip field.
  • Planting them further apart will make room for more spring bulbs in between.

To say a number: plant a tulip bulb 8 inches (20 cm) away from another tulip bulbs.  

Tip when planting tulip bulb

Plant your tulip bulb on a place where you also have your annual flowers: as soon as the tulips stopped flowering, the green leaves of the tulips will be overshadowed by your annual plants.

More about Planting tulip bulbs together in out next post.

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