Texas Gardening: White Tulips for garden wedding March'10! Help, please!, 1 by crowellli

crowellli wrote:
I think you'd likely be better off to talk to a wholesale flower supplier that could have the cut blooms shipped for you at the desired time. If you're actually planning a garden wedding and need them in the landscape rather than as cut flowers, then your plan is probably the best way to go. Tulips here are a one shot flower, they won't naturalize or come back next year, but your probably don't care about that if it's just important for the wedding plans. They also have a required chill time so need to be refridgerated for a specific time before planting. Make sure you allow for that timeing.

If it's white in the landscape you're looking for, you might want to try something that is more reliable and long blooming than the tulips. (Not trying to change your mind, just offering alternatives.) This year I had white allysum and white petunias and they were in full bloom for a long time. Their peak was the entire month of March and into April. They started fading in the heat of May. Here's a pic of that combo. You could also add tulips of white daffodils to this combo.

I hope this is some help.
Crow
Congrats on the wedding plans.
Crow