Talking Tulips With Dave Dowling : Why I Don't Save My Tulip Bulbs : Flower Hill Farm
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Hi Flower Friends! It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- today I am chatting with Dave Dowling, cut flower specialist and expert in the field! I've taken Dave's course on perennials through the Gardener's Workshop and I even have a shirt that read "What Would Dave Do?" so I value his opinion a LOT! I thought he could best explain why farmers grow tulips as annuals and why your homegrown tulips might not be coming back from year to year.
Dave is a former flower farmer and current Cut Flower Rep for Ball Colorlink, a wholesale plant and bulb company.
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What a great interview! Thank you for bring it to us, Nicole. So many lovely people in this industry and so generous in offering their knowledge and wisdom!
This is great info, I was just talking about this very topic yesterday with my friend who is a flower farmer here in Australia xx Cathi xx 😘
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That's dedication!
Thank you for this amazing and informative video. Love all the advice and please invite Dave back for another chat 😊
He is so full of wonderful information! I took his class and often also think...What Would Dave Do!!
Love me some Dave! Refer back to his videos ALL the time. 💕
So many things to learn.
Aw I love your grandpa!
Nicole love to see your videos, i want to know everything about tulips. Love from Argentina ❤️
I'm one of those people that could not wrap my head around the bulb thing. Thank you.
wow ... what a wealth of knowledge. Funny thing, living down here in Atlanta we have ALWAYS treated tulips as annuals - we just don't get cold enough for long enough - some gardeners even go as far as placing them in a fridge for several week before planting them out (usually late winter) ... then dig 'em up and toss 'em ... and be sure to order more for next year as early as possible !!!!
Really enjoyed your split screen approach and getting to meet and learn from Dave. Will look forward to those links about his course.
I’m just here to comment on how much I’ve been loving your new hair!! And to learn about tulips of course.
This was a great video. Thank you for such educational material.
Awesome thank you 🙏
Great info! I'll be sure to join his class.
Love this ! Thanks!
I grew my tulips in a temporary bed using 8” boards last year in zone 5b. I laid the bulbs on the ground and covered them with free well rotted manure from the horse barn up the street. I filled it to the top of the board. It worked fantastic! My bulbs thrived and came out easy and pretty clean. Plus, it was so easy to “plant”! This will be my system for tulips from now on! I can set the bed up anywhere and dismantle it when the tulips are done blooming. I took Dave’s class last year. I refer back often!! Highly recommended.
Great interview. I learned a lot. I have a few of the GUDOSHNIK DOUBLE tulips in yellow and they've come back for 2 years now. I never knew that you had to rotate them. Very interesting and great advice.
I am so excited to take his class and continue to watch your beautiful flower farm bloom. 💚
Interesting about the Tulips. I bought my house 25 years ago and the first spring it was interesting to see what came up.
I have huge tulips. Red ones and yellow ones, the flowers are massive, 5-6 inches deep. The have had zero special treatment. My house is from the mid 60's and likely they were planted then. BC Coast Zone 9.
Very interesting, Nicole. Dave is so knowledgeable. From cold to 80 degrees…..not a good thing for your precious seedlings……or for our bodies. Sounds like you have everything under control. Good luck with your plant sale this weekend. Appreciate getting a glimpse of Grampa.
Will you explain or do a video about the profits of tulips -- such as how much you spend and how much you sell -- it seems some flower farmers aren't able to sell a lot of their tulips since the season is so short and they bloom at the same time and with that issue do you still make money?
Thanks for the video from Dave!
Totally enjoyed this chat, thank you!
Lots of great info!
excellent informative teaching video. great job Nicole and Dave
Thank you Nicole, very useful information even for us nonflower farm growers.🌷💚🙃
I just love Dave! 😊
This is info I knew, but it's good to hear. Especially now because I'm ordering now for next season and I'm not someone who's going to invest the time it takes to pull and replant, so I'm just going to be eliminating all of the tulips from the yard. The extra 20c each is well worth the dozens of years you'll get out of them.
Great info! Thank you! 🌷
MY FIRST TULIPS OF 2022 ARE FINALLY BLOOMING 😭💕
squirrels ate half of my bulbs but luckily I found out that Cayenne or chili powder deters them, so I was able to save some! Next year they won't get ANY 😝💐
Great information, again! I’m part of a garden tour the first weekend of June and have been unsure about what to do with a mass tulip planting right by the entrance to my yard that looks extremely sad. I’m going to dig them up and move them to a less prominent spot and fill in with purchased nursery plants. We are experiencing a very cool, record breaking wet spring and it’s slowed down nearly everything! Thanks.
I was one of those wondering if you gave the bulbs away. This was great information. I’m now thinking about pulling my tulip bulbs- especially since I ordered a bunch of daffodils for the fall. I’m always learning- thanks for sharing your knowledge
Great advice! Thank you. :)
Thank you for sharing. I plant 1200 tulip bulbs each fall. I have several friends ask why I buy new bulbs every season. I did not realize we need to rotate where they are planted.
I also had no idea... if you have a small garden space, you're screwed!! I'm starting to be very annoyed with tulips...
What a very likeable bloke Dave is.
I've been having trouble with Tulips only having short stems. I cant work out why. Any ideas ?
I've read that the tulips have a required amount of chilling temperatures to produce the hormone that makes them grow properly. If there's a warm spell in winter that period is interrupted and growth can be stunted. There may be other contributing factors as well. I am not an expert....just what I've read about on Google after I had the same thing happen to some of my tulips. They were shorties...with a beautiful bloom but only a few inches tall.
@@sherryo.6600 - Thanks for that, it's very interesting. Would also explain why one row in particular had short to tall going in order from one end to the other. The more shaded end of the bed had the taller flowers. Maybe the sunny end of the row got too much warmth ?
Maybe later planting played a part too.
Nicole, are you doing your wildflower patch this year? I'm doing one this year (inspired by you! ) I JUST finished getting the area prepped for pkanting the seeds! 👏 But I'd love to hear about your plans!
Oh no. I'm a new gardener who had tulips for the first time this year. I don't have the money to buy a bunch more tulips this year. Can I dig them up and separate the bulb babies and expect them to come back next year?
Yes yes I'm Jean from Pennsylvania and I have tulips in my front yard that's been coming up for years and there's they're beautiful I don't know if they come up so okay talk to you later
So great to hear the ranunculus still might be okay if I have cool nights, shade cloth, & water with cool water. We have several days 80ﾟ this week and I have over 400 ranunculus on my little flower farm 🥵
In your zone, when do you expect them to bloom? When did you put your cover on?
So super helpful and knowledgeable! I have tulips that come back every year. The ones I replanted from a Walmart pot, were longer than my new bulbs. Why is that?
Wonderful shared video with Dave OK - so for the silly question of the day from a home gardener that only has a small amount of garden real estate to work with and cant afford to leave precious space fallow in the spring - if I need to forgo tulip bulbs every few years to rotate them, does this include ALL bulbs, or can I swap in daffodils in this space and just move them around every few years?
You are not alone on that darn bulb issue with people 😑 I've seen harsh stuff from others on other garden channels. I even got some crap from a few people myself when I sold my tulips this past mothers day. Its silly!
Dave is a great resource for flower farmers and home gardeners.
So just another tulip bulb question...Could you sell bulb on bouquets? Then the flower can die back for the recipient and they could plant the bulb as a gardener not as a farmer? Then seeing when it finally blooms again be reminded of the original bouquet?
So if I’m a home gardener I need to pull my bulbs out every year or I risk introductions Tulip Fire into my beds?
This is older an video but I hope to get this question answered. I'm in Michigan and in Holland Michigan we are known for Tulips. I don't think 🤔 we pull them up and plant new ones and they are full of blooms all over in the town every year. I think there's some that have been same for years? Does anyone know if this is what we do in Holland Michigan
Well that was useful information. Now that I know what it is, I realize that what I thought was frost damage is tulip fire. It's amazing how little mention there is of tulip fire anywhere else. If I'd had this information two years ago, I would have dug my tulips then. Oh well. Now I can't have tulips for three years. Sad face. You saved me wasting another year.
hey Nicole! i love your tee - do you sell them?
forced tulips also need to be tossed after forcing and that always bugs some people. If you give them bulbs they will complain the next spring that they didn't bloom. No win scenario - just better to discard. listened to Dave before - he is great.
Does that happen to gladiolus if I do not dig out the bulb. Do they get the same disease?
Why Keukenheuf park grows tulips at the same place year after year and it's still beautiful??
Hi grandpa 👋🏼
My landscape tulips have come up 2 years in a row but I just snip off the flowers, I have yet to buy for flower farming.. I need this info...
Check out the video on Gardening at Douentza for information on the most reliable tulips for reblooming.
Is the confusions because home gardeners don’t tend to cut their tulips? Or does it matter? I have had tulips in my yard for many, many years and they come back every year. Does cutting them for cut flowers make the difference?
Yes, Dave mentions that cutting them makes a difference!
@@FlowerHillFarm ahh…I shall watch again because I clearly missed that. But, common sense told me that was probably the case! Thank you! You are a beast! 💪🌷
Cutting the bloom makes it more likely they will come back as they aren't sending energy into seed production. What is different is that tulip farmers cut the foliage off, too, so there's no way for a tulip bulb, which is already less reliable to rebloom than others, to set energy for the next year. If you are just a home gardener, cut the blooms but leave as much foliage as possible so the bulb has a chance to store the energy. Also remember to fertilize at that time. If you want to leave the blooms on the plant to enjoy in the garden, just deadhead quickly.
Yay
For us gardeners it is not great to deal with disease. But unfortunately the reality is that there is always a disease to spoil the fun. I don’t enjoy growing plants in pots because plants never do well for me in pots. If I don’t get the soil right it’s the watering, if not that it’s slugs.... pots don’t solve some problems. But with tulips and dahlias I have no choice. I love them and don’t want to be without but risking spreading the disease onto my flower beds (which are very very small) would be a disaster. So I grow my tulips in pots. It’s not great but it’s better than noting 🤷♀️And this way I can trace if plant material is disease free or not.
I just found a bunch of tulip and daffodil bulbs that I forgot about. Is it too late to plant them outside?
I'm not sure if you can plant them now, (I'd like to know the answer to that too), but I think I'd put them in the fridge and plant them in October/November
Do u save ranunculus corms?
Where can we find information on the course?
do you only get 1 tulip per bulb?
What do I have to do to get tulips and daffodils ready to pick by Mother's Day, in Alberta a zone 3b/4? It's been cool this spring and more moister then last year, but still could use more. Last year we had a terrible drought and heat wave all summer and a hot spring. I planted a whole bunch of bulbs last fall, and right now my tulips and daffodils are just coming up. Did I plant them too late in the fall, or do I need to be doing something different to get the bloom time just right?
He talked in the video about this. Short answer is put a tunnel over them to get them up to a month early.
Could start them in crates 3 to 4 weeks ahead of time
There are actually groups, or classifications, of tulips and some are more reliable than others. So if you know that maybe you have a species tulip, fosteriana, viridiflora, or a Darwin hybrid and you planted your bulbs deep enough and tolerate the foliage... you will probably get a good rebloom as those groups of tulips are fairly reliable. Flower farmers, I assume, grow whatever varieties look beautiful and will sell rather than their rebloomability (not a word, but I like it). When profit is a function of time and space... it is pretty clear why farmers pull the bulb ;-)
True for the home gardener. But for flower farmers who, even if they leave the bulb, are pulling so far down the stem to get a long cut for the vase, it’s just not. Since they are ripping out the bulb’s way to harvest energy from the sun, the bulbs simply cannot build up strength to come back strong next year to become perennial. Makes sense.
@@emkn1479 for sure! And like... Those tulips lived a good life before it was their time to head to slaughter 🤣
Cant have tulips..my squirrels think they are bags of sugar and dig up every pot...and its been 8 years since i planted any...sooo soon that generation will be gone...i hope...and well i will consider it again with some sort of cage. In Texas they will NOT regrow anyplace...tho i did have a multi tulip do it once...out of 500.
Nicole, your Grandfather is a panic. I'm guessing that's where you get your sense of humor from. 🙂
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I’ve done this. I bought a little bag of tulips three years ago., popped them in and they had beautiful blooms. I just decided since that spot was empty anyways., I would leave some in there and test it out.. two years ago, they popped up but had split into numerous bulbs (kinda like garlic 🧄), didn’t get any very large blooms, some not at all.., so I divided some of the bulbs and popped the smalls back in.., they seem to be coming up again.. looking bigger than last year. But yes., it’s definitely quite the process to get another large bulb/useable stem.
Loved this. TY.