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Why are the leaves of my tulips mouldy?
The Bird Lady
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Some of my potted tulips are coming up either with mottled leaves or with mouldy leaves that break off as soon as you touch them and no flowers – what’s going on? This will be the 2nd year of them being in the pot. It is huge so I don’t think space is an issue – any ideas please?
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What happened to them after they flowered last year?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tulip fire? A virus that affects Tulips. Not treatable I'm afraid.
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After they flowered, I let them die down as I do with the ones in garden. I left them in the pot over Winter - I don't normally bring my tulips in, they just keep coming up year after year. I've never grown them in pots before.
It may be a virus as Punkdoc says - tulips are susceptible.
I always give my pots of tulips some Fish Blood and Bone after they've flowered and before they die down. I try to remember to repot them in fresh compost each autumn so they have every chance to withstand bugs etc.
However, the only tulips I keep in posts are the small species types - the Darwin and similar bedding types don't do well in pots after the first year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks very much for that. I'll wait and see what happens with the rest of them and then I'll dig them up.