Home Garden
# Home & Garden >> Plants, Flowers & Herbs >> Growing Tulips

What Do You Do When Tulips Begin to Emerge Too Early?

At the end of winter, when most garden plants are still dormant, tulips and other bulb plants start to show signs indicating the approach of spring. Of all the early plants of spring, nothing rivals the color and variety of tulips. Sometimes spring weather comes early, but then winter makes its final stand after your tulips have begun to bloom, giving gardeners a scare that the flowers will be frozen and lost.

Things You'll Need

  • Tulips
  • Fertilizer
  • Mulch
Show More

Instructions

    • 1

      Plant tulip bulbs in the autumn, just before the ground gets cold.

    • 2

      Fertilize bulbs in the fall, when they still have their roots actively growing. This is the time when tulips absorb their nutrition to carry them through the winter.

    • 3

      Mulch tulip beds in the fall and allow the bulbs to rest over the winter.

    • 4

      Leave spring-blooming tulip bulbs in the ground through the winter, because they are winter-hardy and can take the cold.

    • 5

      Allow tulips to bloom whenever they choose, even if you know the wintry weather will soon return. There is nothing you should do to prevent them from blooming. Any interference from you may harm the plant and stunt its natural process. Tulips are tough and can usually withstand the elements.

    • 6

      Leave early blooming tulips uncovered, even in a cold snap. A short period of freezing weather typically won't do any lasting damage to shoots and buds, but it will likely damage blossoms that have already opened. Tulip plants generally recover fully -- producing new blooms in the spring.

Previous:

Next:

Growing Tulips
  1. What Do You Smell When You Sterilize Soil?
  2. When Should You Uproot Potted Tulips?
  3. Stages of Tulips
  4. What Do You Do When Ceiling Paint Starts Peeling?
  5. What Do You Do When a Gutter Freezes?
  6. What Do You Do When Wax Is Put on a No-Wax Floor?
  7. What Happens When You Add Too Much Algaecide in the Pool?
  8. When Should You Plant Potted Tulips Outside?
  9. What Do I Do With Morning Glories When Winter Comes?
  10. When Is it Too Cold to Plant Pansies?
  11. What Happens If You Plant Broccoli Too Early?
  12. What Do You Do When Oleanders Freeze?

Home Garden © https://www.98905.com