Tulip query
DaveKarn@aol.com (Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:49:47 PDT)
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