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I love tulips and have bought some ready to plant soon; I have always grown them in pots (my garden is small and full!) and because I don't want the bother and expense of buying more compost or using my own small amount, can anyone think of a reason

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

I planted lots of bulbs in tubs and pots last autumn - tulips amongst them. I am wondering now whether to dig them out and replace them with fresh ones this year or leave them and hope they will flower again next spring. Some of the pots have other

After admiring Carol Klein's tulips in containers, I planted lots of pots with tulips last year.   When they had finished flowering I fed them and put them away until they started to sprout.  I also brought fresh bulbs and planted these.   Despite

Hi, How viable are my Tulip bulbs if they are dried up and shrivelled? Is there anything I can do? Unfortunately I couldn't plant them out last year so spent a season in storage. Your advice will be much appreciated. Sorry to say I don't think they

hi,i was wondering if anybody could tell me the names of the tulips that monty shown at the begining of gardeners world fri 18/5 please,there were 3 seperate coloured ones shown and 2 types were parrot tulip i think..thanks julie The bbc's i

Hello!  After removing all my poor tulips with tulip fire I want to reuse the pots and soil for my petunias.  Is this safe? There is little that I have found on the web apart from possible contimination with lillies and snakeshead plus 2-3 years

, flowers, flowers and more flowers.  This is at the Keukenhof Gardens, beautifully laid out and just full of Tulips.      I brought these back to England, my husband got these 2 buckets of beautiful  Tulips for me from the flower auction there are 100

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

Monty confused me last night on GW when advising about tulips. I grew all mine in the garden so does the same treatment apply as the pot grown ones he talked about?  This is the first year I've grown a lot of tulips and I chose all Lilly flowered