How many times will a single tulip bulb bloom in one season?

Answer 1

Only once. After the petals fall, they collect as much food through photosynthesis as they can, then the plant leaves die off, so don't remove the greens until they are drying up. Then the bulb goes dormant until the next spring. Not the most efficient plants on earth, but they can be quite pretty.

Answer 2

I wish tulips would bloom all year long, but once in early spring is all you're gonna get every year.

Here's the MAIN problem with tulips ---- after they bloom and the petal fade and fall off, you are left with the primary stem and the green leaves - which aren't really much to look at. If you get excited and mow over or trim the leaves and stem, then next year your bloom will be smaller if you are lucky to get one at all. (After the petals fade and fall, the stem and leaves serve the primary purpose of feeding the bulb for next year - without that process, your bulb for next year will be 'smaller' and produce less and less each year.)

That's a problem if you have a bed with ONLY tulips because then you have a space that's mainly green for the spring and summer with no color. I've had good luck with primary tulip bulbs then after they bloom, scratch the soil surface and plant wild flower seeds - however, it makes it diffiuclut to weed until the new flowers start to bloom. The BEST alternative is to plant a bed with tulips and many other different kinds of flowers - tall in the back - maybe boxwood or some other flowering taller plant, then in front of that something shorter that comes into bloom later in the year, then your tulips and maybe even pansies in front of those.

The main goal in a good flower spot is to have some kind of color and texture all year long.

Good luck!

Answer 3

tulips are pretty, but they bloom only once. after the tulips bloom and the petals falls,I fold the stems down and put a rubber band on them until they dry out. because I have other flowers in the bed, it makes the area look better.

Answer 4

Sorry, just once. Then it need to reenergize the bulb with the leaves, so don't be removing them early. Let them stay out until they naturally begin to yellow. You could be applying some flower fertilizer around the bulb bed now, that would be nice.

Answer 5

they simply bloom as quickly as in line with season and the bloom final approximately 2 weeks. whilst they bloom and the flower dies you ought to enable the golf green leaves or foliage die clearly because of the fact it feeds the bulbs for next years bloom.

Answer 6

unfortunately only once if the deer don't get to them first and the squirrels/chipmunks don't eat the bulbs! BEWARE

Answer 7

Once.

Answer 8

sadly only once...but what a show......