Transplanting Tulips
Transplanting tulips is quite easy if you follow a few simple rules.
The first thing to understand is that the tulip requires full sunlight to grow properly. It also requires a full growing season where the leaves are allowed to go yellow naturally. Once the leaves are yellow, the bulb can be dug and stored cool and dry for the summer. The bulb can then be transplanted or replanted in the fall in your preferred garden spot.
Can the bulb be transplanted in the fall?
Absolutely. If you remember where the bulbs are, they can be dug and moved quite successfully in the fall. The problem of course is remembering where the bulbs are. If you knew ahead of time that you wanted to the bulbs in the fall and then you could mark the location of the tulips with a stake.
Transplanting tulips in the spring
It is quite possible to dig the tulip in the spring immediately after blooming. The bulbs are moved and immediately replanted at the same depth as they were in their previous location.
This is not the recommended way nor normally done in most garden settings. But, if you really want to move tulips and recognize that you will lose some of these plants then you can dig and move them immediately after flowering. So yes you can do it in the spring but you may lose some of these bulbs.
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