The other day I was talking to a friend who’s a keen gardener and she let slip the fact that in late spring she digs up and bins her tulips and buys fresh each autumn. I was aghast (she does the same with begonia tubers too) because while bedding tulips may not flower as well after their first year, they will still put on a good show and in the worst case scenario can be moved to a less obvious area of the garden.
Discarding perfectly healthy tubers and bulbs is a ridiculous waste of money, but a lot of people do it. My preferred option (when I can be bothered, because our tulips seem to come back reliably year after year) is to wait until they have flowered, then…
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Amateur Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, 27-Apr-2024