The tulip has likely survived in that spot because it is not fertilised or watered and because the slope provides extra drainage. An ornamental bed where daffs and muscari thrive obviously has good soil and is likely to be watered and fertilised particularly in summer. My guess is the tulip will not like it there. I find that tulips are quite happy in part sun if they get their other needs. Under deciduous trees can be a god spot for them.

You overestimate my dilligence. This is the first year I watered the daffs or muscari, and only because I read that they should be kept moist during growing season, they did perk up some. The soil maybe improving because I switched to Sweet Peet and organic compost as mulch which will break down into the soil faster than the hardwood used previously. I do not fertilize, and I only water the grass when I can remember, not the flower beds. It would still be under a deciduous tree - the Maple, but it will not have the same drainage because the bed is totally flat and I'm certain it's all clay. It seems I like this tulip even more now, just my type of flower- it thrives on total neglect. Unfortunately it probably will not survive another spray of chemical vegetation killer that I use to keep the weeds at bay on my slope. If I'm going to save it, it must move someplace off the slope. I think I found another tulip, but it is just the broad leaf - it never flowered at all. Thanks for the comments. Hopefully I can find another suitable location.

Wait as long as possible to dig them up. Then store them over the summer and replant like a store-bought bulb in the autumn. You should get at least one spring out of them in any home :)

Thanks - I read some of your previous posts as well - so I plan to hold off until the foliage turns brown or dies. I would really like this little guy in my front bed where it would be more appreciated, but I will consider some other locations since I am waiting until Autumn. By then I may have an area a little further up the slope but off to the side that I will be planting again, and it may be ready for the tulip, still on the slope for drainage, and will not be fertilized or well cared for - just weeded, and hopefully mulched. At least it won't be in the vegetation kill area. I assume from your previous advice that storing the bulb(s) in a cabinet in my basement which remains cool and dry during the summer will be acceptable. Thanks again. I would feel bad wasting such a hardy little trooper.

Sherri

Here is a link that might be useful: tulip picture