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Carol Klein's tulips

On 21/05/2013 in forum

Hi, does anyone know the variety of tulips Carol has in her cottage garden programme filmed at Glebe Cottate.  They are golden orange and Carol grows them in pots.


Tulips and Beans

On 25/03/2012 in forum

to grow the beans in the container. Try starting your beans off in pots & when tulips have finished remove some of the soil & mix in some decent compost eg horse manure compost (available from your local garden centre), Then re-plant tulips & put beans in


Tulip Buds dying

On 10/05/2012 in forum

disappointing tulip displays recently. Yes, I agree. Tulips do need water when growing, and have to be watered when in tubs if there isn't enough rainfall. This happened to many of mine, and now Tulip Fire has spread through the lot.  I sincerely hope this isn


Tulips from Amsterdam

On 07/06/2013 in forum

Hi please could someone offer advice.  I have just purchased 20 tulip bulbs in Amsterdam and am now wondering if I should plant them out or store in dry place.  Some of the bulbs have small green shoots starting.  I have seen on some sites


Guerrilla gardening and planting tulips

On 14/10/2011 in Gardeners' musings

Last Sunday was International Tulip Guerrilla Gardening Planting Day. To mark the occasion, guerrilla gardeners (so called because they grow plants on public or private land without permission), planted tulips all over Europe in tree pits, neglected


Spring Garden

On 27/08/2012 in forum

baskets and take the basket out after they have finished flowering. I also have clay soil and the tulips do not last, I grow them in pots and daffodils in the ground.  I would also add biennials, wallflowers, honesty, sweet rocket. Go with the flow


Talkback: Tulips

On 07/05/2012 in forum

replaced, with the correct goods, or refunded my money.  So even our 'trusted' suppliers make mistakes. Yvie Hi James,I don't grow tulips but all my yellow daff's have finished that is the one's that flowered this year the white daff's are better than ever


What to do with dead flowers/Tulips/Daffodils

On 30/04/2013 in forum

with perennials.  If not, just plant small annuals and perennials in amongst them to grow up and continue the flowering succession through the summer. The larger flowered tulip hybrids don't always coem again but will if they were planted deep enough


tulips not flowering..

On 15/04/2012 in forum

hello everyone.. i have a problem with my tulips this year.. they have not flowered as well as normal.. i was wondering if it was because of the dry weather we have had down south.. or do they have to be lifted and divided like other bulbs.. Hey


Monty Don

On 11/06/2013 in forum

not flower very well the next year, so what I found puzzling was that Carol Klien has pots and pots of Red tulips displaying at Glebe Cottage every year, now does she replace all them pots every year. It would interesting to know. As I started growing tulips


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