Re: fall sales--bulbs

>The big growers, such as arboretums with those magnificent tulip
>displays, dig those bulbs up after bloom and discard them.  Each year >they 
>  plant newly purchased bulbs.  I don't know how the Dutch >propogate 
>tulips for sale.

))))))))))))))))))

I watched an episode of Rebecca's Garden awhile back in which she was 
touring some tulip farms in Holland.  Part of the process was cutting off 
all the blossoms, I think to put all of the plants' energy into the foliage 
to feed the bulbs.  Sure was sad, watching all those flowers get chopped off 
in their prime!

Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7 (still hot--80ish and DRY!!)

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