Help!
Planted bulbs (some tulips, some daffs, some hyacinths) in planters covered with pine straw. This worked fine last year. But this year, we had near-record cold followed by near-record warmth, and yesterday I noticed something green sticking out of the straw. So I uncovered them some more and saw lots of these long skinny shoots. What should I do?
thx- jo
If they are daff's I'd uncover them--mine have been up for a month now. Then just "snuggle" the much back up around them. =)
Thx dmj, these don't look like regular daffs or tulips breaking the soil. Fortunately, those haven't really come out yet (I say "fortunately" because we really shouldn't have them quite this early yet in zone 7). They probably are some of those "bulblets" as gordo describes. Some of these were two-year old tulip experiments and I might have planted some really small ones not knowing that they need size to really flower. Am new to bulbs, you see. Thanks to both of you.
jo
They look like a species tulip which does grow in late autumn and stays evergreen over winter. I have some which look like that, they spread by runners and make loops above the ground. The mature leaves are broader but young leaves look like that.
Mine were supposed to be T humilis Eastern Star, but look like T bakeri Lilac Wonder. Did yours flower? Mine took years to mature and flower. The leaves are very glossy.
http://www.paghat.com/tulipabakeri.html
Hi wallaby - no, I never had tulips like that (but they sure are pretty).
