Spotlight Magazine
Terrific Tulips
If I could grow only one type of flower then
it would have to be the tulip. Harbingers
of warmer days, the choice available is
mind-blowing. There are frilly parrot tulips
bearing fringed petals, sturdy fat-flowered
types and graceful plants with lily-like
blooms.
Water everything in but shelter the pot
from heavy rain so it doesn’t become
waterlogged and never water in frosty
weather. I use water-retaining granules
mixed in with the compost. These help
to maintain soil moisture throughout the
dormant season.
They are also tremendously
accommodating. You can plant them much
later than daffodils and narcissi because
they don’t need to start producing roots so
early. In fact you can plant them from now
until Christmas!
Feed the daisies or anemones throughout
their flowering season in the Autumn and
the Spring and you should be rewarded
with a beautiful display sometime in April
or May.
My mother uses them as annuals and rips
them up after flowering but I can’t bear to
do that so I plant them deeply and leave
them in the