Winter Tulips

So many reasons. My personal favorite is that fresh flowers are NEEDED starting in February. In the small town I live in folks call February “deep winter”. It is about the time they try to take vacations, start dreaming of summer, and really need color in their life. The local grocery store flowers look so sad in February after the big flush of Valentine’s Day roses.

I NEEDED color in my life and so did my neighbors. Maybe we were not the only ones…

The next reason is tulips season is so fast if tulips are in the ground and bloom in spring. I know this because I plant tulips in the ground and love when they explode into bloom in late spring. I walk the tulip garden when the snow starts to melt just waiting…. and then they are here! I run around picking them all in a mad frenzy and then they are gone…..

When I learned there was a way to force tulips to grow during the winter I signed up immediately. It was through a course for commercial flower growers called The Tulip Workshop that I learned about growing winter tulips hydroponically! Learning how to do what is called succession planting I could have tulips blooming December - May. Yes please!