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Species tulip query

TigerFeetTigerFeet Posts: 35
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This year is the first time I've grown species tulips. I left it a bit late to plant the bulbs   but decided to go for it anyway. Some of them did well and produced flowers but I'm not sure what to do now.    Is it better to keep them in the ground after flowering or can they be lifted and treated the same way as  ordinary tulips?
Advice will be much appreciated

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Species tulips don’t  need any mollycoddling … if they’re in a spot that suits them (with summer sunshine) they’ll naturalise and spread, coming back year after year.  Don’t lift and dry them … you wont do them any good and might stop them increasing. 
    Marvellous things, species tulips. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TigerFeetTigerFeet Posts: 35
    No mollycoddling sounds good to me 🙂 Thank you for your help
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