Questions and Answers
Should I lift my tulips as soon as they have finished flowering?
Tulips that bloom in May provide a difficult dilemma to tidy gardeners, who prefer to plant up bedding plants into an empty border. Should they dig them out or let them stay? If they have finished flowering, they can be dug up and replanted in a clump in a tucked-away moist soil spot where they can continue their life cycle, unnoticed but still growing. If you want to encourage these tulips to put on another great display in future years, however, you should leave their roots undisturbed and instead water and feed them while they are still in flower. Just remove the flowered tulip stem after the petals have fallen.
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