Tulips

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Hope a tulip supremo can help! Some of my FG tulips have come up stunted, where did I go wrong??

I have no idea, but would be interested in replies, as mine have done the exact same thing. I thought it may have something to do with the weather or the type of tulip?
Also a lot of my daffodils that are planted in the ground and come up year after year failed to flower. Strangely none of the yellow ones appeared, and only the white and yellow ones flowered.

Oh and last year I was equally unlucky as I had a beautiful display of tulips in the front garden and along came a deer and beheaded them all! About 50 flowers in one go! I was just left with stalks!

Mine are exactly the same.
Some i bought from Costco are amazing but the FG ones are tiny and very sad.
I'm so disappointed.

Unfortunately some tulips are a one season flower.

Phew! Thought I planted them incorrectly, may not bother with FG bulbs for next year.

Luckily, we don't have deer in London but the foxes did go over my two new planted small fuchsia bushes in the front garden 😩

One season only! 😬

Yes some tulips are only good for one season and then that’s it.
You may as well bin them afterwards.
Mice have had a go at mine this year and decimated them. 😩

My FG tulips have done the same!! But the ones from the local garden centre are up and blooming beautifully. Same with daffs - not a peep from the FG ones, only the garden centre. Annoying!

I have just dropped FG an email with photos attached. I will post when I hear from them.

I have have a reply from FG.

"Im sorry to see that some of your Tulips have been affected by a fungal infection. Unfortunately the mild winter and spring this year have created the perfect environmental conditions for fungal infections to spread with ease throughout gardens, with spores being transported via rain splashes and on the wind."

I've had a deer move into my garden. She gave birth under my viburnum last year. She has eaten all of my tulips, bar one. There's a flipping forest at the bottom of our road. Why can't she go and live with her friends? 😭

It does look like tulip fire (a fungal infection). It's very common in wet winters, unfortunately. The ones that have come up well are probably immune - often the big single Darwin types are, and they tend to be perennial.

The fancier tulips (doubles, parrots, unusual colours) tend not to be perennial.

Loads of mine got eaten by squirrels this year. I love them so much though, I can't not have them!

I will stick to bog standard ones next year 🙁

What are FG tulips? I hadn't realised some tulips flower only once :-( how can you tell if they will come up again next year or not?

Farmer Gracy.

Well hopefully next year will be drier and colder. But you should clean out the post that the affected tulips have been in very well (or even consider using different pots) as it can linger.

I treat tulips in pots as annuals. It's an expensive treat every autumn. I have a few in the garden that come back every year, but not reliably.

Thanks Snapdragon I've been especially pleased with this year's tulips but omitted to keep a note of where I ordered them from!

I've had very good results with Dutch Grown Bulbs.

I was less impressed with FG

Monty Don said bulbs have been affected by how wet its been. My daffodils didn't bloom because birds pecked at them while making nests.
Always been happy with FG tulips though.

I had lots of cool tulips last year. Only boring yellow ones have come up this year. Weird.

One year I planted loads and loads of aliums, all different sizes. They were beautiful. That one year. I never saw any of them ever again.

Really should replant. We live in the countryside with woodland and all the associated beasts that brings. Survival in my garden is a little like the hunger games.