Will tulips come up every year?

Answer 1

Depends on your climate (and how many deer in your area).
Here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, tulips return fairly reliably. In Iowa, I was more used to 2-3 years of regrowth before they just stopped coming back. "Botanicals" like T. clusiana or T. bataalii tend to be more reliable in more areas than most of the garden tulips, but even there, there are a number of cultivars that tend to survive longer than others, most of them in the Darwin tulip group. These are being marketed by a number of firms as "perennial tulips" (when in fact, all tulips are perennial, sigh!).

Answer 2

They will come up for the next few years but each year the flower will be smaller. To compensate feed it well with a general fertiliser and when the flower has finished dead head it and leave the leaves to die back natually as this helps to take the nutrients down to the bulb.
Bulb growers will actually stop tulips from flowering for a couple of years by cutting off the flower before it develops as this helps the bulb to grow and so eventually produce a large flower.
Tulips are hardy but do need to be planted deeper than daffodils, ideally twice the depth of the bulb at least. If it isn't planted deep enough then the stem will be spindly and will not support the flower.
I hope this answers your question.

Answer 3

Tulips are generally considered hardy, and again, in general come back year after year. However, there are some qualifiers. If your area is too cold (USDA hardiness zone 4 or colder) they may not be as long lived, or just 'freeze out'. If your bulbs are planted too shallow, they may come up one year and bloom, then the next, only leaves.

Plant them in a part sun or full sun location. Use a bulb fertilizer when planting, such as ESPOMA 'bulbtone'. In the spring fertilize them with a foliar feeder, such as MIRACLE GRO 'bloombooster'. Don't cut them back until the foliage turns yellow, or even better, brown.

Good luck-
I hope that this helps

Answer 4

Yes .