See below and look up tulipa clusiana - they sound easy. Not my coloring
but delightful. Claudia, could cover the mound in middle of your orchard.

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:29:46 -0700
From: Janet Hoffmann <janet@hoffmann.net>
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Subject: any interest in Tulipa
clusiana?

I have a lot of Tulipa clusiana. They are in bloom right now and will go
dormant as the weather warms up here. We are having an unusually cool
spring in the San Jose, CA area with frost this morning. I have rather
heavy rocky soil and I found last year that the only way that I can dig
them is when the soil is moist from rain. I am thinking that I will dig
them *the end of next week* after the next bout of rain and when the
blooms are starting to fade. I can put them in a large planter until they
go fully dormant. I am not sure if I will make the April 17thcutoff
window. I am also trying to gage whether there is interest in this bulb and
if I should bother trying to save some. I do need to thin them in any case
being as after over 25 years in the ground, they are starting to take over
my front yard.

Janet