When do i transplant tulips

Use a hand shovel to dig around the perimeter of each plant. Dig a few inches deeper than the root ball and try not to cut or damage while wiggling back and forth. If you damage too much of the root system the plant will die after transplanting. Once the root ball has been loosen from the surrounding dirt scoop it out using a shovel and your hands.

Once the plant is out of the ground gently shake it to remove and remaining dirt from the roots. The soil should be loose and moist, make sure not to bury the plant too deep or to shallow or it could impact long term growth. Peat moss and mulch are also good ideas that go well in most gardens. Place each plant into the new hole and cover with dirt until even with the rest of the ground. Add a layer of shredded wood mulch for extra protection from wind, heavy rain and errosion.

Finally, water the garden and apply a layer of low nitrogen fertilizer. This will give the plants a head start on adapting to their new soil. The best time of year to transplant or replant your tulips is the summer or fall. A: Most tulips aren't great about coming back well in ensuing years no matter what you do, but waiting until the foliage dies back completely is one thing that helps. So long as the foliage is green, it's still absorbing sunlight and manufacturing plant sugars that will "recharge" the bulb for next year.

The sooner you cut before that process is finished, the more you've short-circuited the recharge. Ideally, pull or cut off the leaves after they've gone completely brown, then dig and move the bulbs while you know where they're at. No need to wait until fall to replant. A Jill-of-all-trades, Lillian Downey is a certified Responsible Sexuality Educator, certified clinical phlebotomist and a certified non-profit administrator.

She's also written extensively on gardening and cooking. She also authors blogs on nail art blog and women's self esteem. By Lillian Downey. Related Articles. How to Transplant a Surprise Lily. Skip Spring Transplanting Spring is too late to think about transplanting your tulips. Only lift and divide when clumps get overcrowded. Division: Separate offsets when bulbs are lifted to be stored dry in a tray over summer. Replant offsets at least 20cm 8in deep; if planted too shallow, they may not flower.

Seed: Sow the papery seeds in autumn; they will need a period of frost to germinate evenly. It may take years for flowers to be produced. Tulips hybridize easily, but most cultivars are sterile or produce few good seedlings. Tulips are divided into 15 divisions chiefly defined by their flower characteristics and sometimes referred to in bulb catalogues.

Broadly speaking, their flowers can be described as single or double; cup-shaped, bowl-shaped or goblet-shaped; fringed, parrot or lily-flowered; long, slender-tepalled or star-shaped. When choosing tulips, consider their flowering times, suitability for borders, containers see below , or a rock garden where the smaller species such as Tulipa tarda AGM or T.

Some are ideal for naturalising in fine grass; in particular, the low-growing tulip T. Tulipa biflora : from late winter, produces fragrant, star-shaped flowers in ones or twos with white petals which are golden-yellow at the base and flushed grey on the undersides. Height 10cm 4in. Height 40cm 16in. Height 35cm 14in. Height 60cm 2ft. Height 30cm 1ft. Good for forcing. Height 50cm 20in. Height 45cm 18in.

Height 45cm 1. Height 20cm 8in. Height cm in. A colourful addition for the rock or alpine garden. Failure to flower: Small bulbs or bulbs growing in poor soil may not flower. Such bulbs should be lifted, the bed cleared of other plants, and the soil enriched with a well-balanced fertiliser. Only replant the largest bulbs. If the bulbs do not reach flowering size within two seasons, start again with fresh bulbs.

Bulb blindness can also be caused by insufficient ripening of the bulbs during the dormant period.