How many flowers does a tulip plant produce?? and Bougainvillea flower with magenta bracts, cropped

How many flowers does a tulip plant produce??

I am planning to grow tulips in my garden. The flowers look beautiful but I have really not seen a second flower growing (after the first flower dies or breaks). I want to know how it works. After the first flower blossoms and dries up, do more flowers grow on it one after the other or the plant then is a total waste??


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Answer by Christy
The tulip bulb will only produce one flower per year. There is a trick to it and it's important that you follow these steps: once your tulip flowers have faded, snap off the flower stem BUT leave the foliage/leaves to die back naturally. It's not pretty, but they turn yellow and then brown. That helps the bulb store energy for next years tulip blooms.

If you purchased a tulip that naturalizes (it will tell yon on the bag if this tulip naturalizes), the tulip bulbs will grow "babies" giving you more flowers next year. The flowers are greatly increased if you divide the bulbs every 2-3 years. Once you see the bulbs emerge, fertilize with a bulb fertilizer and fertilize again once the foliage dies away in late Spring.

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Bougainvillea flower with magenta bracts, cropped


A bougainvillea flower, pink and white. The modified leaves, or bracts, that are so prominent on this plant (and that many people think are flowers) are in the background. That's a flower bud on the left, with another one up higher. The flower is about as big around as a ball point pen or a pencil. I like the shadow. Isn't God a great artist? Thanks for looking.

I am pleased to be the curator of a Bougainvillea gallery, beautiful photos of this plant by other people. The photos in that gallery show more than one bract color.

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