Only Tulips

Only Tulips. This post is only tulips. Only tulips in my beds. Only one shot per tulip.

We are delighted with our tulips this year. We have been planting blubs for three years and starting to get a nice critical mass of established tulips.

We also have daffodils and hyacinths. Plus some crocus and a few allium. Those are the spring bulbs. But this is only about the tulips.

We buy our bulbs mail order in the fall from Holland Bulbs.

We are rehabilitating some old beds that had been neglected and graveled over for a wider drive way at some point then haphazardly covered with mulch probably right before we bought the house. So typically I get a little mulch then gravel then maybe a little soil then clay when digging out the beds.

We have a system going where we dig out some new area in the beds around now (May/June). Then we have some red Dahlias that we got from a neighbor we put in for the summer. We dig and add soil and compost when putting in the Dahlias so its easier when we do the bulbs in the fall. I usually have to cart off the gravel I dig up and we replace it with better soil components.

When we do plant the bulbs we add in some bulb fertilizer (Bulb-tone). Then the following spring we have some more tulips. And we repeat each year.

The Dahlias are getting out of hand 🙄 more tubers each year that we split up and store in the basement all winter. I am about ready to pass that curse along to someone else 😅 too much work.

Back to the tulips. We buy an assortment.

Lots of different colors plus a few fringed varieties and double tulips.

My wife claims they are all the same when we plant them and you never know what you get until they come up. I mostly run the shovel, wheel barrow, and water so I'm not sure if that is true or she just loses track of what she puts where...

Fortunately she doesn't read my Hive posts so I can ponder this question out loud 🤔

Well that the end of the photos so that means the end of my rambling. Thanks for checking out my post