If you will be planting perennials in the tulip bed, it's best to pull the bulbs up so they do not rot from the watering you will need to do for the perennials. You can throw the tulip bulbs in a pot of soil until fall and replant them. This may be why some of you have not had much luck with reblooming tulips.

With the Daffs...you can tie the greenery down and then they look nice after they bloom

Anonymous wrote:

mjsmith wrote:we plant about 40K tulips each year and dig them up, toss them and plant new ones each year. you just never know how good they will come back.

You plant FORTY THOUSAND tulips each year, and then dig them all up? What on earth?

part of the job....I manage a bit more than a hundred acres of important property. the show is important...

when we dig up the tulips, the locals come by and help us dispose of them.

on of the best ways to get your tulips to last longer but takes a lot of work. is to dig the tulips after the foilage has perished. then wash and dry the tulip bulbs and store in a cool dry space and then re plant in sept october.

no you don't want the tulip to go to seed. takes several years for a tulip to bloom from a seed and there is no guarantee that the tulip seed will bear the same flowers as the parent plant.