{"id":2887,"date":"2019-05-16T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-196\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:18:33","slug":"on-planting-darwin-tulips","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-planting-darwin-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"on planting Darwin tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Will my Darwin hybrid tulips come back every year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his book <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=10522\"><em>Ask Ciscoe<\/em><\/a> (Sasquatch Books, 2007), local garden expert Ciscoe Morris suggests planting Darwin and Empress hybrid tulips 12 inches deep (rather than the often recommended 6 inches) so that the bulbs will be less likely to divide and the squirrels less likely to dig them up.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Lovejoy says much the same thing&#8230;plant tulips 10 inches deep, in a sunny spot, and in well-drained soil, and some are likely to return for several years. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=4278\"><i>Seasonal Bulbs<\/i><\/a>, 1995, p.16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will my Darwin hybrid tulips come back every year? &nbsp; In his book Ask Ciscoe (Sasquatch Books, 2007), local garden expert Ciscoe Morris suggests planting Darwin and Empress hybrid tulips 12 inches deep (rather than the often recommended 6 inches) so that the bulbs will be less likely to divide and the squirrels less likely to dig them up. Ann Lovejoy says much the same thing&#8230;plant tulips 10 inches deep, in a sunny spot, and in well-drained soil, and some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/on-planting-darwin-tulips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on planting Darwin tulips<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[172,184],"class_list":["post-2887","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-planting","keyword-tulipa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/2887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}