I'm also trying, and not for the first time, the beautiful blue-eyed white
tulip, "Tulipa pulchella alba oculata-caerulea", in the hopes of figuring
out
how to keep the bulbs from dwindling away as they have in the past.
Fortunately, it turns out that one of the gals at a local garden center
evidently knows a thing or two about keeping it going so it will form
flowering
size bulbs even though potted. Her advice is to use a sandy, somewhat
alkaline
soil and to feed halfway through the flowering period, then again two weeks
later.

Stay tuned next year for reports on success or failure.

--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate
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