Comments on: How To Make Your Tulips Rebloom http://leslieland.com/2009/05/how-to-make-your-tulips-rebloom/ in Kitchen and Garden and all around the House Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:24:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: hopflower http://leslieland.com/2009/05/how-to-make-your-tulips-rebloom/comment-page-1/#comment-3122 hopflower Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:53:44 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=3101#comment-3122 Your tulips should not have any trouble coming back, (barring deer, of course). Too much eating of anything by deer can ruin them. You have wonderful winters and cold where you are which tulips need, and hyacinths need even more than tulips. Potted flowers have also been treated to behave in such a way as to bloom in a certain time period, for sales! Most potted flowers in general are. But it can take a couple of years to get them to bloom, and if you have a favourite it is worth it. Leave the foliage on as that is how they photosynthesize to make food, but add some low nitrogen food the first year, say 2-10-10 in winter or early spring, and then 10-10-10 when it warms up. Scratching a bit of bone meal in when planted helps to shore them up, too. Most tulips are treated as annuals here in California because of our mild winters. If we are lucky they will return, but rarely a third year. We almost ever have luck with lily-of-the-valley from the central north coast down to the south of the state. I planted some in a pot and placed it under a climbing rose and hope to see them again this year. Primroses will bloom as long as it is cool; they dislike heat and will fade away. That Estella Rijnveld is gorgeous! Your tulips should not have any trouble coming back, (barring deer, of course). Too much eating of anything by deer can ruin them. You have wonderful winters and cold where you are which tulips need, and hyacinths need even more than tulips. Potted flowers have also been treated to behave in such a way as to bloom in a certain time period, for sales! Most potted flowers in general are. But it can take a couple of years to get them to bloom, and if you have a favourite it is worth it. Leave the foliage on as that is how they photosynthesize to make food, but add some low nitrogen food the first year, say 2-10-10 in winter or early spring, and then 10-10-10 when it warms up. Scratching a bit of bone meal in when planted helps to shore them up, too.

Most tulips are treated as annuals here in California because of our mild winters. If we are lucky they will return, but rarely a third year. We almost ever have luck with lily-of-the-valley from the central north coast down to the south of the state. I planted some in a pot and placed it under a climbing rose and hope to see them again this year.

Primroses will bloom as long as it is cool; they dislike heat and will fade away.

That Estella Rijnveld is gorgeous!

]]> By: ilana http://leslieland.com/2009/05/how-to-make-your-tulips-rebloom/comment-page-1/#comment-3121 ilana Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:34 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=3101#comment-3121 Is this the same protocol for hyacinth? I just bought a bunch past flower hyacinths at the local nursery, hoping to plant them and see flowers next year. I also brought home primrose - is it best to plant them out in a March warm spell or try to keep them alive until April or May and then plant them? Is this the same protocol for hyacinth? I just bought a bunch past flower hyacinths at the local nursery, hoping to plant them and see flowers next year.
I also brought home primrose – is it best to plant them out in a March warm spell or try to keep them alive until April or May and then plant them?

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