The tulips have pretty much finished at work. Unfortunately they do not last very long, but look stunning while they are out. This is the first time I have encountered a double tulip flower. For those of you not playing at home, a double flower is when a bloom has more than a single layer of petals. This is also one of the few tulips I have seen with multiple blooms to a single bulb. As you can tell from this photo, there are 3 large blooms, and underneath the petals are a couple more buds waiting to open. If you wish to keep the bulbs for next year, make sure that they were fed with a good fertiliser just as the flower buds were forming, and when the flowers have finished cut off the dead blooms but leave the leaves. This stops the plant putting energy into forming seeds and sends the rest of its energy down into the bulb to be stored for next years growth. When the leaves are dead, you can leave the bulb to regrow next year. Please mind that you will have to dig up the bulbs within about 5 years, otherwise they may end up rotting.
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