I am looking for pink double tulips and some pink daffodil to go into a theme garden, plus I am looking for any hydrangea plants I don't currently have. Check out my trade list.

I don't think that there is anything you can do to get Angelique to come back - doubles don't tend to be perennials to the best of my experience. If you dig her and dry her and replant, she probably won't be large enough (have enough energy stored) to rebloom next year - you'd just get leaves. There are some tulips that have a tendency to perennialize some, but Angelique isn't one of them. I used to think that no tulip was worth the money when some many other bulbs will return, but I now read the bulb catalogues carefully for references to perennializing and have planted tulips that at least have the potential to return, though some get eaten by the rodents. This year I had a good number of tulips among the early spring perennials and other bulbs even though I haven't planted tulips for maybe three years.

Even though it is easy to dig in my garden I am planning on getting so many tulips that it still will be a very big chore. Of course I am drawn to the fancy hybrid tulips, darwins and triumph tulips. But I am really trying to find some that might be more perennial than they normally are around here.

Bah! I love Queen of the Nights velvety color. Oh well, hopefully I'll at least get 1 more year out of them. I usually do planting depth by size of bulb - the bigger, the deeper. I planted some daffodils last fall at the recommended depth and they are only poking out NOW. I think they don't like being so deep when my soil is such heavy clay. But they were freebies so I'm not too terribly worried. Northspruce, I don't feel like doing much gardening in the fall either. I pretty much need to get most of my planting done in spring because I get sick of the difficult part of gardening(like planting bulbs) by summer, LOL. Then I just want to weed, deadhead, and enjoy my flowers.