Ways To Revive Tulips In Bloom?

Tulips are perennial flowers that typically return year after year, but their ability to rebloom depends on various factors, including climate, care, and the type of bulb. To ensure longevity, it is essential to choose botanical species, cultivated varieties, or hybrids bred for naturalization. Deadhead spent blooms, ensure adequate drainage, fertilize appropriately, foil herbivores, leave leaves alone, lift bulbs, provide cold storage, and provide cold storage.

Tulips need full sun and well-drained soil to bloom. Regularly water the soil around the bulbs and fertilize the soil with a balanced fertilizer during the growing season. If you’re growing a Species tulip cultivar, you will have a high success rate of getting your tulips to reflower with good blossoms each spring when using these tips.

To encourage tulips to bloom again next year, remove the seed heads once the blooms have faded and allow the foliage to die back naturally. Keep watering the plant to ensure the bulb can get nutrients for next year. Choose a sunny area to plant your bulbs and plant them deep (about 10-15cm) to give them a better chance of coming back. Cut them annually after they’ve bloomed.

For cultivars more likely to reflower, see the list here. Lifting, drying, and storing tulip bulbs over summer can improve reflowering. Dig them up, make a special betting for them, add sand, add manure, and plant in a sunny spot. Moist soil can cause them to die, while not enough sunshine can prevent them from reblooming.