Growing Tulips in Garden: A Comprehensive Guide
Tulip is a plant that grows without much effort. And being a tough plant, it is always ready to grow. Useful suggestions for planting the plant are as follows.
Tulip is the most special flower among the flowers, which adorns the garden with its diverse colors and appearance. Due to its delightful colors and bright shape, it fills the atmosphere with vitality. Especially when talking about the flowers that come after the terrible cold and winter, tulip is the leader among them all.
It is true that tulip adds freshness and beauty to your garden due to its diverse colors. It is often seen as an ornament while designing the garden.
It creates a very picturesque and charming atmosphere in the garden. It creates a very beautiful combination of hyacinths and daffodils.
This flower is usually found in gardens outside the house, public gardens etc. but if someone wants to give it a place or plant it inside the house, then you can read useful suggestions for that in the following article.
Best time for sowing:
If we talk about the sowing time for tulips, then October is the best month for tulips as well as other winter flower plants e.g. Daffodils and other species, because the reason can be that if planted in October, its roots get fully developed during early days of November and December and you know very well that due to snow falling on the ground during the winter season, it becomes hard and stiff and it is difficult for the roots to go down in such soil
Choosing the right time:
Tulips can grow in any place where there is at least 6 hours of sunlight the soil is fertile and good water irrigation is available.
How deep can you plant them?
The width and depth are measured according to how hardy the tulip and other species are.
For other species such as daffodils and tulips, a hole 6 to 8 inches deep will be sufficient, and for smaller species such as crocuses, a hole 3 to 4 inches deep will be suitable. Generally, 6 inches is fine for daffodils and tulips, and 3 inches is enough for other smaller species such as grape hyacinths.
Best of all annual flowering species:
The best of all the species currently have a lifespan of three to four years and flower once a year, although some species flower for a longer period.
The two most popular are fosteriana and Darwin hybrid. “Fosteriana” is considered the best annual flowering species. It is famous for its large and distinctive flowers. The flowers appear when the branches reach a height of 10 to 20 inches and the flowering time is usually in the early days of spring.
Good soil selection:
Tulips are at their peak of beauty when grown in large quantities. They give good results in waterless and moderately dry soil. You will be surprised to know that in a country called Holland, Tulips are also grown in sand. Wet soil is necessary for seed germination.
Flowering period:
According to a common belief, this flower usually blooms before peonies and after crocuses. The flowering period is 6 months. I have also planted good-quality tulips in my garden.
Different species:
There are different species of this flower as it comes in different colors, especially in red and orange colors, ranging from only 1 flower to double flowers to many-petaled species that are similar to true peonies. They bloom at a specific time every year. Smaller species with small flowers are also found.
Selection of the right species for sowing:
While selecting the bulb for sowing, keep in mind that it should be an authorized seller he should have experience and his shop or institution should be reputable. This species is seen with its magnificent beauty in beautifully designed and well-prepared soil.
Especially if you know that it is available in a wide variety of colors, then you have many options to choose from. From whichever place the bulb is selected, all the details on the bag or other packet such as color, flowering time, sowing method, etc. should be taken into account.
Selecting the bulb:
Once the bulb is brought home, it should be avoided to keep it in direct sunlight and before planting it in the ground, special attention should be paid to it or it should be inspected and damaged or surface or surface pests should be removed and discarded. Properly developed, hard, strong, round bulbs should be selected.
Planting methodically:
Some things need to be kept in mind while planting tulips, such as choosing bulbs whose roots are slightly above the ground and those with the characteristics described above.
While choosing a suitable location, special care should be taken that the soil in which the bulbs are to be planted should not have any other weeds or any other unnecessary plants that are working to absorb the nutrients required by the bulbs from the soil and if the soil is deficient in the right amount of nutrients, then it should be replenished. Read below for this.
It is true that tulips like sunlight, but they cannot tolerate the heat of midday and there is a possibility of wilting. For this, you can make a garden next to your house so that the shade of the house covers the plant during the afternoon, and you can also plant this plant around other large trees or plants that protect it from sunlight.
Watering:
These flowers are summer flowers but keep in mind that till the rains come, the gardener or horticulturalist needs to water the plant so that this delicate plant does not suffer from water shortage.
When it comes to tulip bulbs, there is no need for water in the initial stages.
Fertilizing:
Like other bulb species, tulip bulbs do not require much fertilizer. Especially if too much fertilizer is given, there is a risk of damage to the bulb eyes. Here, it is enough to have sufficient alkaline soil, in other words, the fertility of the soil is sufficient to be at its normal level, after which you can plant the bulbs in it.
Deadheading:
If the tulip plant has lost its leaves due to damage or for other reasons, then it will be appropriate to cut off the entire branch and this will preserve the necessary strength for growth for the coming year.
Completely cut off all the branches and other green parts. Once its period is over it can grow again with new strength next year. It will sprout in just a few hours.
Some other questions that are commonly asked regarding tulips are as follows:
(1) Can you grow this species in a warm climate?
You know that the countries of the world are divided into different zones according to the temperature range, in which white tulips can grow successfully in zones 8 to 10. Especially in those areas where there is a 12-week winter, it can grow in such warm climates.
(2) Can it be grown in the spring?
This question is also a commonly discussed question on social media we did not sow in the autumn season and we want to grow tulips in the spring season, then the answer is yes, but for that, you can bring small tulip tubers on which the eyes are in a small sprouting stage and plant them in small pots and then you can plant them directly in the garden.
Pests and Diseases:
Always keep an eye on the signs of diseases and pests that appear as black spots on the leaves. For this, the first condition is that the plant is sown in well-irrigated and fertile soil, which is the first condition to prevent diseases. If any such symptoms appear, removing them at the beginning can prevent the disease from occurring or spreading.
For this, liquid insecticides are also available in the market. Which should be sprayed in the amount specified on the packet.
Some of these diseases are as follows
Botrytis blight:
This is a type of disease that slowly infects all the other plants from one plant and can be called a fungal disease. This disease is also known as tulip fire for tulips. The spots of this disease appear on the branches, leaves and even on the nodes of the plant.
Pythium root rot:
The characteristic of this disease is that in it the nodes appear to change to a light gray or (brown) color and the new buds on the nodes do not develop or are damaged. This is mainly due to water-related problems and this problem can be solved by sprinkling or irrigating the right amount of water.
Conclusion
If you want to grow tulip plants that your eyes like to see, then the suggestions given here will be useful for you. As you all know, tulips are healthy and cheerful flowering plants and they bloom in the late winter season. It is a species that flowers only once a year and if grown well and with proper care, it shows beautiful results.
