tulips
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Lowe" <nlowe@hotmail.com>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:40 PM
Subject: 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!!)
>
I took a tour with our garden club of the Tulip farms in Washington State
and they remove the blossoms to prevent disease once the bloom is over its
best.. The local high schools collect the various colours of petals and make
a huge collage on their football fields of the school emblem or whatever.
Because of the deer problem I've not grown many tulips. After coming home
from the Washington tour I got carried away and tried to do a small scale
bed with two colours but was not very successful. I think tulips, unless the
species, should be regarded as annuals.
Mary P
Duncan, BC
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