When & Where to Plant Tulips ... Tulip bulbs are planted in fall in USDA hardiness zones and below ... In Zone and higher plant bulbs in late December or January for spring bloom providing bulbs have been chilled at 40-45°(refrigerator works well) for 10 weeks prior to planting ... Light: Tulips grow best in full sun in the North and partial shade in the South ... Soil: Plant tulip bulbs, pointed end up, in well-drained soil with pH between and ... Add compost to improve sandy soils and poorly draining clay soils ... Spacing: Plant bulbs -” apart ... Planting: The general rule of thumb is to plant bulbs three times as deep as the bulb’length ... Traditionally, tulips are planted -” deep ... Those who favor deep planting at 12”, claim there is less chance of sprouting in fall, damage by cold air and soil, being heaved up by freezing and thawing, or being eaten by animals ... Southern gardeners may prefer to plant their bulbs at more shallow depth, to take advantage of the exposure to cool air that occurs closer to the soil'surface.
SAN FRANCISCO—Visitors to San Francisco’Union Square will be able to take home tulips for free on March , mixing and matching any 15 owers out of the 100,000 that will be available ... This will be the third year San Francisco has celebrated Flower Bulb Day, also known as American Tulip Day, at Union Square ... The event is being organized by Royal Anthos, company based in the Netherlands that exports ower bulbs to countries all over the world ... Henk Westerhof, president of Royal Anthos, said the idea came from similar event organized in Amsterdam, where people pick and choose from 150,000 tulips ... Visitors pick up tulips in Dam Square in Amsterdam during National Tulip Day on Jan ... (Photo by KOEN VAN WEEL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) ... “The event is very spectacular ... Lots of people were coming to Amsterdam to pick their own bunch of tulips,” Westerhof told The Epoch Times ... “If you can do it in Amsterdam, why don’you do it in the United States
Window and Indoor Gardening - The Cultivation and Propagation of Foliage and Flowering Plants in Rooms, Window Boxes, Balconies and Verandahs; also on Roofs, and on the Walls of the House