How to keep tulips longer: bulbs and flowers

Tulips appear in our gardens early enough. The abundance of colors and shapes of buds of these flowers affected the fact that tulips are the most favorite spring flowers for many gardeners. How to keep tulips, flowers and bulbs for longer, so that they delight with their beauty as long as possible?

If the cultivation of tulips is just a hobby, then you need to know how to properly preserve them, so that they do not lose their varietal identity, and, consequently, their beauty. To do this, the bulbs of these flowers must be dug out when the tulips have faded. If this is not done, the tulips will "degenerate", ie. will lose their varietal differences and eventually become common yellow or red tulips.

The dug tulip bulbs are stored until autumn, wrapped in soft paper, in the lower compartment of the refrigerator, unless, of course, there is a cellar or caisson. Then in September, they are planted again in prepared nutrient soil. This pre-winter planting ensures that tulips will bloom again in the spring. If the bulbs are kept until spring and planted in spring, then most likely there will be no flowering this year.

But then the tulips blossomed and became suitable for cutting. How to keep blooming tulips for as long as possible? There are also several points for this. Firstly, you need to cut tulips early in the morning, in time it is somewhere around 7-8 in the morning. Secondly, tulips, cut in the form of strong unblown buds, "stand" well. You need to cut the stem of the tulip obliquely, thereby increasing the area of ​​water flow into the cut flower. This should be done every day at home, keeping the stem under water, so that an air lock does not form. In addition, it is necessary to change the water in the flower vase every day.

Good luck!