They're the gardener's pot of gold. To work this new magic, think of the happiest flower colors and the prettiest combinations you ever yearned for.
Tulips require a period of cold while they're dormant and resting between shows.
That means you must plant before freezing weather, then get your great display in the spring weeks of color if you know your tulips and plant early and late ones, and a lot of middle-between. The ground should be moist when tulips are planted. Give them two to four weeks to start their roots before watering. Your big opportunity to surprise yourself, your family, and your neighbors with the earliest tulips in the neighborhood rests in those listed as species tulips. After the species tulips get well started at blooming, come the Single Earlies and Double Earlies which are much better known.