Do people really dig up tulip bulbs every year?

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I was looking to see what I'm supposed to do wuth tulips that have gone over, and apparently people lift the bulbs, wrap them and store them to replant in the autumn? Is this really a thing?

I cba. They do seem to do just fine the following year.

I don't. If they don't come back, I'm not bothered. But this is my garden rather than my job. I don't have time for that in my garden. Not part of my job at the moment

I leave them and they come back fine.

This.

All our tulips are in containers that I need for summer planting, so I’ve always lifted and stored. However, I watched Monty swapping his spring planting + earth out of beautiful terracotta pots into plastic pots and bunging them behind the greenhouse over the summer, so I think I might do that this year.

I don’t. Mine come back sometimes, come back a bit weedy or come back blind. I plant fresh every year anyway. Interestingly I found all the very dark purple ones I planted last year have come back this year

I take them out of my pots when I want to replant the pots. I think put them in old pots in soil so that the leaves can die down. One year I them took them out & wrapped them up. This year I didn't!
I don't dig the ones in the garden up, far too much faff. Plenty of them come back although the squirrels have their share.

I leave them in place. The ones in pots I stick at the bottom of the garden out of the way once they've died down.

My mum used to plant in large plastic pots and then bury the whole pot into the flower beds whilst they are growing/flowering and then lift the whole thing and stick them out of the way.

Thank you. I think the cba factor may kick in, at least for the main flowerbed ones.

Crikey, do they?! Definitely CBA.

Nope. Leave them en situ.

I cba and mine are fine (they aren't in pots though, they're in beds). Life's too short for that sort of thing.

The bloody squirrels have had all my tulip bulbs in the past, so it wasn’t an issue having to dig them up as they never lasted to flowering season anyway.

I've just spent all day digging up my daff bulbs and putting them in pots down the side of the house to die back. Absolutely knackering, filthy job. Not sure I can be arsed to do it again!

No

Nope! I am on heavy clay as well so probably should but life is too short. Daffodils do very well and come back every year. Tulips and alliums I probably get 50% coming back the following year between the weather and the squirrels digging them up so I pretty much treat them like an annual and always plant a few more in the autumn as they aren't expensive.

Really? Never knew you were meant to, so no, I don’t (and they’ve appeared late April for 17 years or so now)!

Nope. I leave them and some come back the year after - over time, more and more die off and so every couple of years I stick a load of fresh ones in.

I am not going aorund digging anything back up again - not even dahlias which just have to take their chances with a good mulch to keep them snug over winter.

I grow my tulips for cutting so plant new ones every year. The old ones go out in the garden in Nov/Dec where they are left to it which frees up the space for the new ones to be planted.

No. Never did then we had a garden. Just added bulbs every year. Worked fine.

My daffs are generally fine (I do try to make sure I feed them while they're in leaf).
My tulips in the border were good for over 5 years but have pretty much failed this year so I guess they need replacing. I've got some daffs in tubs which I think are from last year - some nice flowers, some blind.

I treat most tulips as an annual. I do sometimes put them in a border or put planted pots behind the greenhouse. Most tulips tend to look a bit less year on year. If you dig them up to keep you have the storage issues.

No, I just leave them. Most of our daffodils and Tulips were already in our garden when we bought around 8 years ago. They comeback every year just fine. I definitely couldn’t be bothered moving.

We have daffodils and bluebells all in the lawn also in Spring. They die back, get mown all summer, and back again in spring

No - I never planted the bulbs that are in my garden. Been here 20 years and they come up every year.

Blimey, no.....