04/26/2026
🌷There’s been a lot of questions and a lot of buzz around tulip production so we thought maybe you all would enjoy reading a little more about some tulip talk. 🌷
These are spent bulbs. We buy new tulip bulbs every single year for tulip production for cut flowers. This has people thinking wait, what? I thought tulips were perennials? You have to buy new bulbs every year!? In some cases tulips are perennials, for flower farmers they are not.
Tulip bulbs in which leaves and flowers are removed will not produce a reliable or quality bloom the following year. As that flower goes through its process the leaves are gathering nutrients and storing them in the bulb underground for flowering the following year. When there are no leaves and because the flower is not allowed to die down in its natural life cycle and is harvested rather, there is not enough put back into that bulb for continued production with any guarantee of good stem length or good quality sized flowers.
It is true that tulips which are perennialized in peoples yards do come back every year, but those tulips are given their natural process. We have lot of people asking why their yard tulips are petering out. When we ask are you picking them? Almost always the answer is yes, so this may give insight into why they are not coming back at all or coming back very small.
