What to do with bulbs that don't have flowers.

Sujit Hart sujithart@gmail.com
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:26:25 PDT
They put up some healthy looking foliage but no flowers.  We did have a
very mild winter this year.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Rodger Whitlock <totototo@telus.net>
wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2016, at 8:17, Sujit Hart wrote:
>
> > I put in some Tulipa clusiana and some daffodils maybe three or four
> years
> > ago. The second year after planting they came back in the spring with
> some
> > flowers, maybe 70%. This year I only go one daffodil bloom.  Should I get
> > rid of all the bulbs and plant something else instead, or is there
> anything I
> > can do to get them to bloom again?
>
> I looked up the cllimate of Houston on Wikipedia:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Houston/
>
> Houston has a hot climate with more or less even rainfall throughout the
> year.
> Tulips prefer (or may even demand) dry summers. In your climate, istm that
> they
> would be prone to attack by fungal diseases.
>
> A question: did your bulbs put up foliage this year, or was there simply
> nothing where you had planted them?
>
> There may also be issues relating to soil fertility and pH.
>
>
> --
> Rodger Whitlock
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate
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