Transplanting Tulips Bulbs After Blooming | Container Gardening 

That's awesome. I was commenting for an update. So glad it worked for you. I'm going to try to divide some tulips after they bloom this year. 😊

This was SO helpful for me over in the Finger Lakes, NY

Thank you for updating us this year! I’m going to move some of mine this year and now I’m “hopeful”!

Have you tried the same but take small side bulbs (divisions) and grow them bigger elsewhere? I have some that have divided like crazy, but too small to flower.

That’s amazing! I would recommend looking up Claus Dalby either here or on Instagram. He does incredible displays with bulbs.

Good luck!!! I’ve been thinking about trying a Japanese maple up here in a container but I don’t think I have enough space in the garden 😂

They’re coming back this year! Haven’t bloomed yet but I’m excited.

@@ChicagoGardener ahhh so exciting! I jsut planted some I got from Walmart and they’re blooming now but hoping they will come back next year

Me too! I’m hoping this method works bc it will be the best for freeing up space in my garden but still keeping bulbs year after year.

That would be amazing! I’m back in Indiana quite regularly. What’s the best way to reach out to you?

@@ChicagoGardener I’ve tried 2 times to send you my email address and my comment hasn’t went thru. I’m gonna try again. Lol

Ok, I’ve even spelled out the numbers in my email and it still won’t let my comment go thru.

@@ChicagoGardener I sent you a message on your IG

In England Tulips always re bloom when left in the ground or lifted and replanted.

@@delfine7163 Do you have a milder climate? 15 or more years ago, I planted tons of different types of Narcissus, that bloom over a couple months, plus maybe a dozen Tulips, a few Hyacinths, scattered Clumps of Crocus, Chinodoxa Glory of the Snow, & numerous Grape Hyacinth - mostly purple & a few white. I love looking forward to them every spring, & they do not disappoint. Somehow, a few years ago, I was blessed with the appearance of Snow Drops in front, now a densely growing patch. I had found a patch of snow drops growing way in the in back yard, over 120' away, up near the stone wall, when we were shopping for a house in '97. Did birds eat some of their seeds & drop them there in front? It seems the only way possible. Some of the tulip greens still show up, but only a few still produce flowers. I had enriched the soil of the entire, formerly all grass banking with cow manure aged with compost, & that had been fine for the ground covers, perennials & small shrubs, for years. I filled the banking with spring bulbs too, adding bone meal or "Bulb Booster" in each planting hole at the time, & haven't fed them at all since. Unfortunately I lost a lot of ground covers & fewer bulbs bloom there on one side, because the banking became shaded too much by letting a seedling of a Weeping European Birch sapling stay. It was pretty for years, but is really too large there now. The entire bed needs to be dug up & renovated soon. I'm hoping to spray the PI with diluted 30% horticultural vinegar, so I can work in there, & then redistribute the bulbs currently on the front banking into other beds, as I don't like to see so many dying leaves at one time in front. All that digging will allow me to also remove most of the PI roots. With everything else out of there except for a few shrubs, I'm hoping I can spray every new PI leaf & vine that continues to try to grow there. I'm building new areas for the spring bulbs in back on the slope, so there'll be Rhododendrons behind the terraced beds, filled with spring blooms, with some new & some relocated plugs of ground covers: pale purple moss Phlox, Iberis, Sandwort, etc.. It'll be quite a project. I'll likely add more tulips, & try feeding them once or twice per year this time.

They sprouted this year!

I plant in the fall, usually around early November, and then remove them after the flowers are done and replant them down in the parkway! That usually happens early May.

I’m not sure if there’s a recommended way, but I just snipped down the stem close to the leaves. I think I maybe waited 3 or 4 days after cutting the flowers to transplant them but that was just bc that worked best with my schedule. So far it seems like they transplanted well!

Yes! I’ve done it for two years now and my parkway is currently full of tulips sprouting!