Pre-Cooled Holland Tulips

Although I live in the deep south I am going to try growing some pre-cooled tulips from "Holland Flora" for the first time. I will grow them in 20" cedar containers and realize it is a one shot deal unless I dig up the bulbs and refrigerate them for the summer months of which I can not do as I don't have the room. I got the idea after seeing a hundred or so tulips planted around a neighbors tree last season and it looked beautiful so I thought that I would give it a try. Any tips from anyone would be appreciated.

No suggestions but I would love to see a picture when they are in bloom!! I am going to try some species tulips for the first time this year here in the desert.

I bought the 'pre-cooled' tulip bulbs from Brent & Becky's for the first time this year, hoping to plant them in containers for both indoor and outdoor use.

(We can't just plant tulips into the ground because of 'critter' issues.)

I am looking forward to any tips, too!?!

I wish you good luck with your bulb projects! t.

Tabasco -- Plant your tulips but spray the ground after planting with Critter Ridder or another type of protectant available at all stores. It works!

When plant prechilled spring bulbs, in the garden or in container. I mixed a handful of bulb-booster slow-release fertilizer into the well prepared soil. Plant them according to their size(s) depth recommendation on the labels. Every Spring I'd have a different 'annual spring bulbs' bed. Even here, the hot summer heat is too much to try to nuture the bulbs for the following year's return. It's worth it to me to treat them as annuals in our Southern gardens.

p.s. I mix about a table spoon of the granule fertilizer in each one square foot of planting. Then refill well prepared soil on top (without fertilizer added -- another word; mix your fertilizer to the bottome of the holes, and not on the refill soil on top/around the bulbs).

Plant the bulbs right on top of the fertilizer in the bottom of the hole? Is this what you mean? Even if mixed , won't it burn the bulb? I've always been told to use bone meal?

The fertilizer is mixed in with the bottom soil. Then put the bulbs on top, then fill in with soil that's not mixed with fertilizer, that was how I did for many a year. No burn, since by the time the bulbs sprout root, the fertilizer has been dispersed and the root has source of fertilizer enrich environment to form healthy strong growth.

The previous pictures were that of spring 2007, here is this past spring.