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It's a common frustration. You Kiv l''. 100, maybe even 300 tulip bull's, plant them in the fall and oniov a great display in the srnng But the folkming spring, all vou get is a smattering of flowers and maybe a bunch of leaves.
"'What happened?" you ask vourself. "Aren’t tulips supposed to come back? Mv grandmother has tulips that have bloomed o\ on spring for as long as she can remember? Did I do something vn nnvg?"
According to Tim Schipper. owner of Ccaorblends wholesale tlowerbulbs in Bridgeport Conn., ' 'Hi am not to blame. "It’s in the nature of tulips," he says "Most >tv not strong perenniali/ers. lhe\ don’t flower well the second ' ear after planting."
The tulip bulbs Knight and '’anted in the fall have been ;nvmod to bloom. They were used in sandy Dutch soil and '< rtili/ed in just the' right measure
When they bkx'med in the -i'nng (the same year they were s night), the flowers were cut off
after they opened to keep hem hum drawing too much nergy from the bulbs below.
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