In a message dated 8/30/04 4:32:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mark@marksgardenplants.com writes: > . . . they make a new bulb each year but most of mine are now divided into > two or three bulbs. Any ideas why they would have done this? Mark ~ As I understand tulips (imperfectly!), each of the major leaves will make a bulb, thus, there will always be more than a single bulb at the end of each season (assuming one started with a mature bulb and growing conditions were conducive). Like offsets of all bulbous plants, these "daughter" bulbs have to be of a certain size to bloom and that is a factor wholly dependent on culture. Dave Karnstedt Cascade Daffodils Silverton, Oregon, USA