Wildflower Tulip Bulb Mix

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realiable regrowth year to year with little care

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These are super cute and are a beautiful mixture of colors. They are much shorter than I expected, make sure not to plant anything tall in front of them... most are about 3 inches high.

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I planted 200 of these in my back yard last November. I would say just about all of them came up and bloomed. They poked their heads out in mid-March and I had my first blooms in late March; they are still going strong through late April. Some of the individual blooms last only a day and others last a couple weeks. These are a mix of colors and sizes; all the colors in the picture are represented and then some, but unlike in the picture, the different colors don't all bloom at the same time. In my garden, the bright pink ones bloomed first, then the lavender, then the dark purple and yellow, then the orange, then some tall light yellow and pink ones. Some are very short, 4-6" high, and some grew to over 2'. I planted them in groups of 3 scattered on a hillside and they look really nice. Some of these tulips will come out with 2 or even 4 blooms on a single plant, the magenta and the yellow/white seem to have done that. They're much more uncivilized and unpredictable than other tulips, which is exactly what I was going for, but may not be for everyone. They thrive with a minimum of maintenance here in the suburbs of Chicago, I pretty much never water them. The flowers do get eaten by wildlife occasionally, but I didn't find that squirrels got any of the bulbs.

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Winter leaves me desperate for flowers. These bloomed beautifully and cheered me up. The pale yellow ones were luminous. I will buy more for next year.

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These wild gems are quite beautiful in the garden. Unfortunately, unless they are planted in areas not easily accessible to wildlife, it has been my experience that everything from squirrels to chipmunks to rabbits to groundhogs will eat them. Around half of my first year's crop was lost to eager squirrels digging out the bulbs for snacks; the majority of the remainder had the leaves bitten to nubs and flowers chewed up within a day of blooming. A few tenacious bulbs survived into the second year, and I have hopes that within time they'll form into hidden caches and provide me with the show I'd been hoping for when I first planted them.

Some things I have discovered: The tulips prefer mostly sun over part sun/part shade. None of the bulbs I planted in the shadier areas ever opened more than halfway while the ones I planted in sunnier areas tended to fully open in a beautiful display. Full sun stunted the plants' growth, leaving both surviving leaves and flowers pressed closely to the ground. Returning bulbs planted in shadier areas wound up developing long stalks the second year, putting the flowers at least a foot above the ground.

Overall, unless you have a problem with garden pests, these small jewels make a lovely splash of color in the early-to-mid spring garden.

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I got these for wedding favors!!! Everyone loved them!!!

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I love the colors. They are small and i planted them to far apart. I will buy more for a nice ground cover. I have them planted in a shady part of the lawn and are growing fine.

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First tulips up in the spring. Would look best among low groundcover like veronica repens, cerastium or thyme to mask the foliage when the flowers are finished. Mine are in a fairly dry, shallow bed.

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It seems like the bulbs bloom more than once and more than one color! A friend told me that when I bought them and I was skeptical. Small, but very pretty and colorfull.

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I put these species tulips in a long section of garden in front of a short rock "retaining"/dividing wall. They are at most 6 inches high.

They come in wonderful colors... not all of which bloom at the same time. Planted randomly... the pink/reds came into bloom followed by bright yellows. This stretched the blooming period over many weeks. And... I might add... this wonderful display of blooms came from tulips that had (while slightly ammended) dreadful clay soil. The chipmunks or squirrels never found the bulbs. I think every bulb resulted in a bloom.

I have high hopes they will be faithful "returners" and "multipliers. Many species tulips are "permanent" tulips. Since this is my first year - will have to wait to comment on that aspect of these bulbs.

I would buy more of this product.

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Planted these last fall and they are blooming now. They are much smaller than the regular tulips most people grow (yes, I expected that) and their petals are more pointy. Some of my friends asked if they were crocuses (no, the squirrels ate my crocuses, but they didn't eat the tulips.) I find these little tulips lovely and charming, and I was pleasantly surprised at their delightful fragrance. They make nice (though short-lived) cut flowers for a small vase too.

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I forced these bulbs a couple months ago. About 90% of these came up. I recently transferred them to flowerbed. I anxiously await their bloom.

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These are beautiful flowers and came up very well. They look great all together in a clump. It seems I mostly got the yellow ones, with only 2 purple, so I wish I had a little more variety. But I can't wait to see them again next year!

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These species tulips are wonderful. The range of colors is varied and the colors are vibrant. Unlike hybrid tulips, these species tulips naturalize and come back every year. They are perfect for a woodland garden or any garden. Until recently it was nearly impossible to find species tulips. You plant these little gems once and will get years and years of beautiful flowers.

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So these haven't all come in yet, but the ones that have are amazing. Great color, sturdy red interior, yellow edged flowers. I'm in zone 10 with temperate winters and experimented with forcing some of them, but these started blooming in January! I have had tulips flowering ever since. Some potted in the windowsill, which have drawn a lot of compliments, and some lining my back patio which just look gorgeous. There are still some out there that haven't bloomed but have some sturdy stems and I can't wait to see what they will look like. One thing to be aware of is the flowers really vary in height - I've been very happy with the ones I've grown in containers because I can move them around to see the flowers. In the garden some of these shorter blooms got lost behind other flowers.