missed clipping blooms

by Janet
(Fort Mill, SC)

I dsid not clip the deadheads off of my tulips this year. If they come back next year, and I clip off the blooms, could they recover the following year? I am just sick that I may have messed up my tulips, that have now bloomed beautifully for 3 years in a row. This is just a small section. I also have yellow, white, and orange. They just happen to be grouped in colors.

Doug says that clipping off the tulip flowers isn't really necessary. These small species tulips will likely simply self-sow. Don't worry about it at all - if your bulbs don't bloom next year it is NOT because you didn't prune off the dead flowers this year. Hint - you only prune off dead flowers to stop them from setting seed or to make the plants look better. :-)