A clump of Tulips straight out the garden Tulips provide amazing spring colour in the garden, the range of colours, heights and flowering times available is just mind boggling. I always enjoy a trip to the Tulip Festival in Glenarm Castle every Spring to marvel at the luxurious displays and new varieties on show. But impulse planted Tulips soon become massive congested clumps, that start to affect flowering quality and growth. November is a great time to be lifting and slitting tulips you have in the garden, or indeed if you've lifted them after flowering (like me) and stored them in boxes for just this very job...
A lovely wee job for inside the potting shed or polytunnel. By splitting the clumps you get loads of offsets to either pot up or plant out in the garden, thus extending the tulip flowers throughout your garden.
A lovely wee job for inside the potting shed or polytunnel. By splitting the clumps you get loads of offsets to either pot up or plant out in the garden, thus extending the tulip flowers throughout your garden.
Tulip bulb with small offset attached
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Separated offset
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The finished job, a big load of bulbs and offsets ready to be planted in the garden. Before where I just had Tulips in the front garden, I now have enough to plant the back garden too!. The offsets will take a year or two to come into flower (they have to gather energy and increase in bulk before they can flower), but when they come it'll be spectacular.
Gracies wee red wagon is a handy garden tool for such a task, and encourages the kids to get involved with the planting. Heres' to Spring!
Gracies wee red wagon is a handy garden tool for such a task, and encourages the kids to get involved with the planting. Heres' to Spring!
