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Why are tulips growing that I didn't plant?
DH and I had our from yard professionally landscaped last spring - they pulled out ALL plants, mulch, dirt etc and put in new shrubs/flowers. Tulips were NOT part of the plan and no tulip bulbs got planted.
I looked out the front window and there's probably 40 tulip stems that are starting to pop up - they're about 4 inches tall right now.
We had "stink horns" towards the end of summer last year in the mulch that turned orange in color but I'm not sure that's what this is. I pulled one of these out and there's clearly a bulb on the bottom.
Suggestions? I should mention that none of my neighboors have these. I live in VA and we had literally NO winter this year.
Re: Why are tulips growing that I didn't plant?
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No winter doesn't mean no tulips, fwiw.
Are you sure they are tulips vs. wild onions (aka weed?). Also, squirrels have been known to plant or move bulbs around my yard.
If you don't want them & don't want to dig them up, just keep the foliage trimmed down. If they can't store energy this year, I don't think they could pop up next year.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
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You don't have to have a real winter for tulips as the PP's stated - your ground just needs to freeze and you need to get below freezing temps for more than 8 weeks - and I'm sure DC had at least those temps this winter and for that long.
As they come up, can you dig them up? Or will that destroy the work of the landscapers? If you want to ensure that they don't come back next year, you will have to dig them up or they WILL come back. Eventually they will die out and thin out but that would take years and it sounds like you have quite a few.
Not true. We have tulips here and we had less than a week of nights below 32?. Our winter's been in the 50s and 60s and it's 74 here today. Our tulips are happy as clams. Maybe certain varieties need cold, but it is not a blanket requisite, and certainly not for 8 weeks.
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