^^ Love the color combo of the magenta and yellow. Gorgeous!

I planted some tulips last fall up by the house where the deer (hopefully) won't get to them. I love a good display of tulips. What I don't like is replanting them every year, so I planted species tulips. Not quite the same effect as the long-stemmed Darwin types, but quite nice nonetheless.

Oh my gosh - tulips? They won't be blooming here for another four weeks or so! The daffodils have just started, I noticed some hyacinths coloring up, but the tulips are only showing leaves so far.

Since you posted a picture from last year, I have some shots of my tulips from last year too. I hope that isn't cheating! - I really love tulips in the garden, and the ones that I don't use as cut flowers all tend to return, multiply and flower very well for many years. (Don't hate me for that) I have tulips that were planted about 15 years ago along my front walk and they have gotten so thick this year I will have to dig and divide them. My summers are very dry and the soil is a fertile sandy loam which makes the tulips thrive here. I kiddingly call the areas of my garden "Little Keukenhof" that have tulips growing in them!

Mixed varieties of Lefeber tulips

Don Quichotte

Salmon Parrot

Blushing Beauty

Sonnet

Mixed Parrot tulips

More Don Quichotte - one of Grace's favorites!

I cannot remember the name of this one - Apricot something

Juan

Annika

I don't think you can ever have too many tulips! When the new ones start to bloom this spring, I will post some more pictures, if that is okay with you guys.

@mxk3 z5b_MI: thanks! They were a Costco mix of Triumph tulips so probably won’t return this year but I got sucked in by the Easter pastel colors

@Jeb: your tulips are just gorgeous!! Can’t wait to see your pics from this year!!!

Wow such gorgeous tulips! I have given up on tulips because they really don't reliably return - the foliage does, but no blooms. So most years I buy a couple dozen and put them in pots for a bit of spring color. It will be some time before they bloom yet though.

Sorry, Jeb, I think I DO hate you for that! :) Especially since I have tried some of the same ones you have! But I will forgive you as long as you post photos so I can live vicariously through your beautiful tulips.

:)

Dee

I only had a few fosterianas. All finished already. Rained and blown to pieces. Daffodils almost over too. We're on to the later Pheasant's Eye narcissi. If the snails will leave them alone. They love the white flowers even more than the yellow. And they've already started on the hostas as soon as they poke above ground.

@floraluk2: I planted a lot of fosterianas last Fall. Can’t wait to see what they look like!

Tulipa cretica ’Hilde’ just finished but here they are (foreground) from a few weeks ago. (Lachanelia and Babiana behind them).

Beautiful tulips, everyone!!! The squirrels around here have a thing for tulip bulbs, and if they can't just dig up the bulb, they LOVE to clip off the tulip flowers just as they start to open. :p

@socalgal: they are so pretty!! Thanks for sharing! 🤩

Wow everyone! These tulips are just stunning! I have never seen such variety!! I would love to have some, but with all my hostas and companions I am not sure where to put them. Then, after bloom, you just have foliage left, right????

debra

Ahhhh, beautiful !!

Spring bulbs are hit and miss here, a moderate spring and the show lingers, otherwise not unusual to go from frosts to the frying pan that blooms are gone within mere days.

@djacob Z6a SE WI: yes, only foliage left and you have to wait until it dries out to remove, so it’s good to plant it behind hostas and other plants that will hide the ugly foliage until it can be pulled out.

The ground is still frozen, but I was pretty excited yesterday when I noticed my tulips are emerging 🤩

For the last coupla years, i have only planted species tulips but have usually picked dozens of hybrid garden tulips most years until I noticed them looking a bit diminished this year. Am going to plant another 500 or so this autumn - am clearing spaces already with this in mind. I mostly edge my beds with them as they have a small footprint for the amount of bloom and colour...and they are incredibly cheap where I live - around $12 per 100 bulbs.

@User: that is cheap! Mine also diminished over the years so I planted about 400 fosteriana and Darwin last Fall. Hoping for a good show this year! 💐

Omg the thought of planting 400-500 bulbs makes me start shaking lol. I love the bloom of spring bulbs but hate planting them! Hadn't done any for the last few years but last year I bit the bullet and planted some more daffs and crocus and am certainly glad NOW that I did!

You guys MUST show us pictures of your hundreds of bulbs in bloom!

:)

Dee

Dee, I tend to plant bulbs along the edges of existing vegetable beds so the soil is deep, friable, and easily trenched - I throw handfuls of bulbs in at a time and simply earth up. All the bulbs will reorient themselves and dropper roots will pull them down to a good depth. I certainly don't plant each bulb one at a time.

Failed (again) to even take pics for myself this year...which has been annoying since species tulips will increase at a terrific rate when happy so even though the garden hybrids have diminished a bit, the little wildlings have been outstanding.

Garden not essential! On the canal this morning.

Another species tulip - Tulipa sylvestris.

Heres why I’ll post photos from last summer, this is my garden as of yesterday:

last summer tulips

so I planted about 400 fosteriana and Darwin last Fall.

Ay caramba! That's impressive.

I can show you just one clump of red fosterianas. I love these early blooming tulips even though they are quite floppy.

Very pretty, rouge!!

My tulips are just starting. These are always the first.

@sandyslopes z6 n. UT: Those are so cute! And they look great with the muscari!