Do Blooms From Tulip Bulbs Change Color?
Yes, tulip bulbs are changing the colors at bloom time. I planted orange tulips, in six different places. They all came up orange the first two years, then after next year they came up pink and purple colors. This was my personal experienced about them. If you want to know more about tulip flower bulbs, then you can visit at http://www.dutchgrown.com website.
Kevin Stoker – I have planted over 500 bulbs this year as well as some the previous year. My mother told me that some of her bulbs changed colors after a few years (blue blooms became yellow). Does this really happen. If so, can I prevent it from happening? Thank you! Neil Allen ILZ5 – There is a possible explanation (of sorts), although I’ve never witnessed it. Tulip suppliers warn against replanting tulips in the same spot in the garden every year. (This assumes that you lift the tulips after the foliage matures, store them over the summer and then replant in the autumn.) Tulips can be subject to virus disease which can cause streaking on the bloom; so a virused red tulip might get yellow streaks. I suppose the idea is that virus can build up in the soil — but I’ve never seen this given as a reason not to leave the “perennial” types in the same spot year after year. Perhaps I’m mistaken, and the “not again in the same place” advice is just normal crop rotation (exhaustion of nutrien
