To enjoy tulips in the garden they must planted in the autumn in the full ground or in plant containers.
When planted?
- september – beginning of december. The Tulips must certainly six weeks in the ground for the first frost. So that they can develop solid roots. A soil temperature of 5 to 10 degrees is ideal.
Place our tulips in the garden:
- Plant your tulips in airy, not wet permanent basis. Mix heavier ground (clay) first with sand, before the tulips to plants. Add three parts sand on a part earth.
- Choose a sunny to half shaded place.
- Make a hole for the tulpenbol and place the sphere with the pointed side up and the roots to the bottom in.
- Large bulbs must be planted 20 cm. deep. Small orbs average 12.5 cm. deep. As a general rule, the bulbs should be planted three times as deep as the bulb is high.
- Plant tulips always in groups, that gives the best effect.
- Hold approximately 1 cm. distance between the orbs
Care:
Give the Tulip water in order to develop. In periods of frost it is wise to cover the primer, for example with straw or leaves.
A tulip has a flowering period of about two weeks. Create a ‘flowering scheme’ of the various tulips (color and flowering), so that the tulips are flowering throughout the spring.