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Do you plant the potted bulbs you get for Easter?
All the tulips in the photo above were Easter gifts.
This year I received a lovely pot of purple tulips. When they began to fade, I cut off what remained of the blooms.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CHapXQd6InbfF5UW8e2TlRphRfV-HxwsMWhi2POl-bt2F0TiA-_f66v26P7XL01xJIvynGH6E8BK4ynQSrvZxIMYMvhgeg3cG9EV4EyrXuw2W2DirHrO7KdMqRu5-sdBYi3Tcg/s320/Garden++4--26-2011_12.jpg)
Dug a hole behind the existing Easter tulips.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4B_Yo6BL1iOq75E1iQNqSH6-fjWz7XCFzSLuFr2gXpbgjjZOy9ZchQaY7Z7LPk-cOikXVlPCTu90o2evB9a79sHezPE4L81B16JpZt6gEu-SRMRUZgxC6TSwXvMF8E3Qi0wAa2A/s320/Garden++4--26-2011_24.jpg)
Cut and teased the roots.
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Put the entire pot full in the hole and refilled it with the soil and watered in.
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They may not bloom next year but I hope they will do as well as the other Easter tulips in a few years.
All the tulips in the photo above were Easter gifts.
This year I received a lovely pot of purple tulips. When they began to fade, I cut off what remained of the blooms.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4CHapXQd6InbfF5UW8e2TlRphRfV-HxwsMWhi2POl-bt2F0TiA-_f66v26P7XL01xJIvynGH6E8BK4ynQSrvZxIMYMvhgeg3cG9EV4EyrXuw2W2DirHrO7KdMqRu5-sdBYi3Tcg/s320/Garden++4--26-2011_12.jpg)
Dug a hole behind the existing Easter tulips.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4B_Yo6BL1iOq75E1iQNqSH6-fjWz7XCFzSLuFr2gXpbgjjZOy9ZchQaY7Z7LPk-cOikXVlPCTu90o2evB9a79sHezPE4L81B16JpZt6gEu-SRMRUZgxC6TSwXvMF8E3Qi0wAa2A/s320/Garden++4--26-2011_24.jpg)
Cut and teased the roots.
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Put the entire pot full in the hole and refilled it with the soil and watered in.
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They may not bloom next year but I hope they will do as well as the other Easter tulips in a few years.
4 comments:
Hi Marie....I'm still alive. Seems to be getting more and more difficult to make time for blogging.
I plant my Easter lilies, but after seeing your Easter tulips, I'd be tempted to plant my Easter tulips, if anyone gave me any. Guess I could buy some for myself.
Do the squirrels bother your tulips bulbs?
donna
Hi Donna,
The squirrels don't seem to bother my tulips. I read that squirrels can smell the papery coating on the bulb so I'm carefuly not to let any get on the soil. Sometimes I sprinkle cayenne pepper around newly planted bulbs.
Marie, thanks for leaving a comment on my blog about feeding the bulbs. In the spring, you say. After they are done bloonming? Just sprinkle the bonemeal on top the ground? I sound like I've never been in a garden before, but I don't seem to have a knack for bulbs.
The Hemlock tree is one of my favorites. They are plentiful a little north of here. You're lucky to have some in your yard.
donna
Donna,
Yes, I sprinkle bone meal on the soil around the bulbs. Sometimes I scratch it in a little with a hand hoe.
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