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How to Care for tulips after bloom

When the tulips are done blooming you should try to keep the leaves as long green as possible. Water the tulips twices a week when the temperatures are above 75 degrees. After the leaves die back you can either choose to dig the bulbs up and divide them or keep them in the ground during the summer. We advice to dig them up at least once in the three years.

What is Dead Heading?

 Despite the opinions of certain music aficionados, dead head is an ancient term that has nothing to do with a certain group from San Francisco. It refers to the act of removing withered flower heads after bloom to discourage flowers from going to seed.

The act of setting seed can use up as much as 30 percent of the energy of tulips in spring. That’s why it’s smart to dead head tulips, encouraging subsequent bloom while providing a tidier look. Daffodils, on the other hand, reproduce differently from tulips. There is no need to dead head them after bloom. In order to regenerate for new growth next spring through photosynthesis, the foliage of all spring bulbs must be left in place to die back for a minimum of six weeks after bloom. After this period, the withered leaves may be cut back to ground level.

 

 Last week the Tulip Man started to dead head some tulips, it was a windy day... 


 

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