Bulbs: Spring Bulbs - What's Blooming? II, 1 by seedpicker_TX

seedpicker_TX wrote:
Steve-
My "hat is off" to you...

I know the rest of the world can grow tulips, but I had decided here in North Texas that it was a complete impossibility, and waste of money...

One Fall I bought over 100 angelique tulips...

I never saw them again, past the day I spent all that time planting them, lol...

What is the "secret" to getting tulips to come back in Texas? Are yours planted in our native soil, or a complete soil overhaul? How deep?

Maybe I needed to plant them more shallowly, or add sand? I thought we didn't get cold enough, either...

So many questions, but you are obviously the guy to ask! :0)

I adore those orange/pink tulips in the first few pictures...*sigh

Oh, and I've killed crocus over and over, too...hyacinth do ok for me for a few years, then peter out in a slow decline...

Gladiolas, Sparaxsis, and spanish bluebells have done well for me, though...and clivias(are they a bulb?, lol)...and I've learned the trick to peonies(another one that I see that you grow, but we aren't "supposed" to be able to grow here)
-Taylor