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How To Plan And Successfully Grow Your Tulip Garden.
By Rob Young, Tue Jan 10th
Every spring if you walk down past your neighbor's gardens for astroll in the park, what do you inevitably see, both in thegardens and the park... beautiful displays of tulips. Gardensfull of delight! Tulip gardens are easy to create because apart their stunningbeauty they are readily available, cheap and have a wide rangeof colors and forms. Most garden outlets and bulb catalogs sellthe large-flowered garden tulips in packets of mixed colorsaccording to group or in packets of named individual varieties.The large-flowered garden tulips are just made for use asbedding plants - they combine really well with forget-me-notsand wallflowers. They also can be used to great effect plantedin scattered clumps among perennials or other bulbs. The smallerspecies tulips have a less choice of colors than the gardentulips, but they have a more delicate form and are ideal forrockeries and container gardens, or the front of borders. The requirements for successfully growing tulips are: *choosing large healthy looking bulbs * have well drainedalkaline soil * plant in a sunny spot
The soil must be well drained and preferably alkaline; if it'sacid apply lime just before planting. Now's also the time to adda fertilizer which releases it's nutrients steadily to the soiland provide long lasting feed for the bulbs. The
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bulbs of garden tulips and the Fosteriana and Greigiihybrids are best used as bedding plants or as group plantings inborders. Plant in early winter-if they're put in the ground anysooner any early growth could get frost damage. Dead-head as thefirst petals fall, leaving the stems and leaves intact to feedthe bulb. It's best to lift the bulbs when the leaves startturning yellow, but if the site is needed for summer bedding,lift the tulips earlier, replant them in a spare corner, andlift again when the leaves have died down. Place the plants inshallow boxes and store in a dry shed. Plant the bulbs of species and Kaufmanniana hybrid tulips inearly winter, in well-drained soil in a south-facing position,sheltered from strong winds. After flowering, remove the leavesand stems as they die. Leave the bulbs in the ground and keepthe area free of weeds. Basically that's it...just remember the main 3 points * chooselarge healthy looking bulbs * have well drained alkaline soil *plant in a sunny spot and lift and store all bulbs except the species and Kaufmannianahybrids. In spring you'll be pleasantly surprised at the colorful showthey provide for such little work and moreover you'll havecreated a beautiful tulip garden of your own. You can find moredetailed information about planting your tulip garden athttp://www.elegant-tulip-bulbs.com/tulip-garden.html About the author:Webmaster of www.elegant-tulip-bulbs.com.
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