Tulips are different from daffodils. Unless the daffodils are smitten with hungry grubs or speared by the gardener, they'll sit and clump up and flower until they're overcrowded. Tulips grow to flowering size, do their thing, then produce daughter bulbs which then have to grow to flowering size. If you have a clump of species tulips you can see this going on season by season. If they aren't deep enough they produce 'dropper' roots and pull themselves further into the ground. It's a fascinating structure to see. If you want a guaranteed display of a particular tulip then your best bet is to buy fresh each year to be sure of uniform flowering and creating the picture you had in mind. If you have one of 'those' gardens (like mine!), where the leaves are as welcome as the flowers, then you can dig up and replant each year. Or you can leave them in place. Generally, in this zone and place, I do not fridge my bulbs. Not any of them. They resent it to death. In zones with baking summers I can see it could be necessary to persuade the bulbs that it's time to put out the starter roots before winter sets in. A little shiver down the spine, so to speak. For me, one tulip I can count on to return without being lifted is 'Spring Green'. And T violacaea. Most of the others are taken out, left so the leaves fall, then put into net bags and hung in a cool shaded place. They stay there until I replant in May and June (your November-December). However, there are always daughter bulbs that go unremarked until they show up the following spring. If you don't like that, and digging is not an option, then you can use a Roundup wiper wand on the leaf to remove the problem.

I bought Lowe sut of there spring bulbs about five hundred, they are all bloming now wish I new how to post a picture they are truly outstanding, Three types of new dafodils, thre types of hycinths, and several types of dutch iris Would like to set up a large trade for your irises,Ive got many many plants to trade right now I have ornamental grases five diferent types and water plants and canna lilies bought from lowes last year,lets trade Hightider

Hey Paul,would like � Cleome - Mix � Salvias-- � Torenia-- Mix � Ozmorhizza claytonii sweet cicely � lance leafed coreopsis � Left over from various trade done thru oct 10 - Jan 11 so they should be fresh seed can not say for sure. � asclepias syrica � pink mallow � apple of peru � nicandra physalodes � nicotiana sylvestris � yellow senna � shoo fly � white pincushion � pink hibiscus small flower � hibiscus mix � chamomilee � malva mauritiana 1/3 trade � Veggies � tomatos � mexicana hybrid � glamour 10 seeds � tangarine mama � cantalope imperial 45 � lettuce grand rapids I have Chinese Lantern, Zinnia( catus, dwarf and regular mix) dwarf snapdragons, petunias will send with sase, thanks peaches

I've never been to a trade. I mostly raise herbs and edibles (grapes, currants, berries, unusuals) and am interested in possibly attending this trade. I didn't make it to any of the markets this year although I'm gearing up for next year already so I have tons of plants. Please fill me in on the details for this trade (location, time, date, etc.) Thanks!