So much so that centuries ago, Europeans—who didn’t know when to plant tulip bulbs or how to grow them—saw the Middle Eastern flower as a luxury item and would pay any amount to have one.

Larger animals, like deer, also love tulips. You can try using repellants, which are sometimes helpful, but they also need to be reapplied after a rain. Or plant bulbs that rodents don’t like ...

How do you make sure that the bulbs you plant now, this fall, are going to do a superb job of ushering spring into your garden? Once the tulips and other bulbs have bloomed and been cut for indoor ...

Is December too late to plant tulip bulbs? It's the question on many people's minds right now, especially as so many packets of tulip bulbs are on sale at local garden centres up and down the country.

There’s a reason tulip festivals are popular, and if you want to reproduce that look at home, you don’t need to even plant the bulbs in the ground. Do it like the pros, and grow them in the ...

But they usually won’t continue to grow well if planted after they flower. These forced tulip bulbs are best relegated to the compost pile after blooming. You have a good start if you purchased ...

which will tell the bulbs to grow. The best place to chill your bulbs is outdoors or in your basement. You can chill them already planted in your pots or leave them in the paper bag they ship in.

the Netherlands has become the world’s tulip epicenter because of its ideal bulb-growing combination of cool climate and sandy soil. It helps that the Dutch also are highly efficient at both ...

Q: A friend visited from the Netherlands in November and brought tulip bulbs. Then we moved. Then Christmas. Then we got sick. What should I do with the bulbs? Plant them? Will they survive until ...

there are over one million tulips throughout the city. Each year, the City of Holland Parks and Recreation Department orders over 500,000 new bulbs to plant in the ground. "For forever ...

Until 2013, the number of cultivaters was still declining steadily. The majority (55 percent) of flower bulb farms are active in growing tulips. Along with lilies (25 percent) and narcissi (12 percent ...