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Tulips
Greenfingers Guerrilla
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Greenings to all,
Can I use last years tulip bulbs ?
Will the display be as good as the first years flowering ?
Many thanks to all
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Hi Greenfingers Guerrilla
Yes, you can replant them. Sometimes the flowers are not as impressive in the following years, but I find them still worthwhile to replant for a few years before they fade away or succumb to virus.
If you have the smaller Species tulips you can leave them in the ground and they don't seem to deteriorate like some of the larger ones.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I keep pot grown tulip bulbs going from year to year, fresh compost each season, and from Spring I feed with Tomato fertiliser. Some varieties are better than others, you learn from experience, I reckon any flowering from year 2 onwards is a bonus. Also look out for BQ etc selling off bulbs at this time of year, I love a bargain.
I like Dove also grow species Tulips, Tarda which is yellow and white does well left in the ground in my garden here in the NE. I also like Turkestana? But that lives in terracotta pots as I believe it would succumb to cold wet soil.