Friday, November 18, 2011

Why did a yellow tulip appear in my backyard when I did not plant it?

I don't use my backyard. There's a cherry blosson tree and a patch of rectangular soil surrounded by a pebble and stone barrier in it. My dog uses this rectangular patch of soil to "go" and then we clean it up (kind of like a big outdoor litter box).





A week ago a yellow tulip appeared in this rectangular patch of soil. I didn't plant it, neither did my mom, or my dad. My backyard is surrounded by a ten foot picket fence, so I don't think anyone climbed over it to put it there. Also, they wouldn't have made it far before my dog (German-shepherd/husky) would have attacked them.





How did this happen?

Why did a yellow tulip appear in my backyard when I did not plant it?
I don't think the bird pooping answers are logical...tulips come from bulbs.


I think more along the lines of the squirrel digging it up





or someone else planting it there before you


how long have you lived there?
Reply:It's possible that the bulb was left over from someone else's planting in the past and just now had the right conditions to grow. I don't think a bird pooped a tulip bulb. Unless it was Big Bird...lol
Reply:Maybe a squirrel buried it there (last year). Or maybe it was there but needed more than a couple years or more to bloom again since it was either malnourished (bad location) or getting broken off early each prior year.
Reply:I would say a squirrell dug it up and buried it there for winter food.
Reply:Because beautiful things find beautiful people.
Reply:Squirrels will eat tulips - it is possible that one dug up a tulip bulb that someone had set out to plant and stored it away your backyard
Reply:the answer is probably a squirrel for dug it up from somewhere else and buried it to keep for a snack later on but forgot about it.





My neighbours have received a few of my tulips that way!!!
Reply:maybe a bird dropped the seed/bulb there, or some other animal like a squirrel.
Reply:when a bird eats a seed it may not brake down.


so when the poo they can poo a seed.


so that mite how the tulip got there.


Can I plant my tulip bulbs this spring instead of in the fall?

I bought some tulip bulbs at a huge discount last Nov. They've been sitting in my basement ever since. They look fine. Can I plant them now? Will they survive? Or if not, can I keep them in my basment for 8 more months? Thanks.

Can I plant my tulip bulbs this spring instead of in the fall?
I would plant them now. Fertilize and take care of like you normally would. They should put up foliage. This should allow them to store energy again for next years bloom. Also they should put out a lot of roots and get well established.
Reply:i bought potted tulips before easter and they died on me. my mom says the bulbs are still living. i'm going to plant them outside later on this year. but not sure when. i'd think like any plant they would prefer the warmer temps. i live in Michigan so it gets cold here. just now starting to warm up to 40s and 50s. but have them from me though. and my mom says just wait for theirs to come up.
Reply:yes u can plant them in the spring.i did %26amp; mine came up the next spring.
Reply:Plant them now...they will sprout leaves and may flower. they may have difficulty naturalizing, and you may not get much flower next spring. However, if you leave them in the basement until next fall they are likely to dry out or rot.


Does the amount of humidity affect the growth of tulip plants?

I already asked a question earlier about the same as this, but I needed to specify. Does the amount (A lot, Little, None) of humidity in the air affect the growth of a tulip plant largely? Any links would be helpful...

Does the amount of humidity affect the growth of tulip plants?
tulips will wilt in a humid or hot weather, they need a cool climate to grow.So the tulips harvested each year gets lesser and lesser,but the price of a tulip gets higher a higher. probably $10000 for 1( a joke )
Reply:OMG!! i did this project for science fair!!





more specifically, my question thing was "how cna a simulated weather condition affect the growth of a plant?" i used a bulb plant, the amyrillis minerva (no tulips in home depot). the results were waht i'd expected.





bulb #1 was put in the freezer. i watered it according to the snowfal of my hometown, edison, new jersey because snow melts and stuff.





bulb #2 was left at room temperature and watered according to when the soil was dry at the surface, about once a week because my project was done in decmber. there's limited humidity in my house.





bulb #3 was put in the laundry room. it gets really warm in there cuz of the washer and dryer's constant use. i calculated the humidity and found it to be only 3%.





the results?





bulb #1 never bloomed until after i took it out the freezer and spring came. (i live in the panhandle) this took about two months





bulb #2 also bloomed in spring, only slightly earlier than #1. i kept it inside my house.





bulb # 3 bloomed before its sisters. i saw its flower in january.


What is the scientific name of a rose? tulip? daisy? pansy? sunflower? carnation?

I have to find the scientific names of 6 flowers for homework. so can you just right down the scientific names and the common name (tulip, rose, etc.) next to the scientific name. THANKS

What is the scientific name of a rose? tulip? daisy? pansy? sunflower? carnation?
Rose ...Rosa berberifolia


Tulip....Tulipia


Daisy...Bellis simplex


Pansy....Viola tricolor


Sunflower....Helianthus


Carnation....Dianthus caryophyllus





Below is the link to The home page for Wikipedia, where I found the carnation answer. You might want to click on it and then bookmark it. It's a free online encyclopedia and a great place to find answers for your homework.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Reply:I would beg to differ that it is a "great place to find answers for your homework" Wikipedia can be changed by anyone who can access the site and while it has a plethora of information it is not always accurate. Report It

Reply:DO U GO TO CRISTO REY? CUZ I HAVE TO DO THE SAME HOMEWORK
Reply:Rose :-


Kingdom: Plantae





Division: Magnoliophyta





Class: Magnoliopsida





Order: Rosales





Family: Rosaceae





Subfamily: Rosoideae





Genus: Rosa L.





Species: Between 100 to 150





Tulip:-


Kingdom: Plantae





Class: Lilliopsida





Order: Liliales





Family: Liliaceae





Genus: Tulipa





Species: may be 66 or more





The family Asteraceae or, alternatively, Compositae, known as the aster, daisy or sunflower family, is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The family name is derived from the genus Aster and refers to the star-shaped flower head of its members, epitomized well by the daisy. The Asteraceae is the second largest family in the Division Magnoliophyta, with some 1,100 genera (See List) and over 20,000 recognized species. Only the orchid family (Orchidaceae) is larger, with about 25,000 described species.


Kingdom: Plantae





Division: Magnoliophyta





Class: Magnoliopsida





Order: Asterales





Family: Asteraceae





Type genus : Aster L.


Subfamilies : 1-Barnadesioideae


2-Cichorioideae


3-Asteroideae





Pansy:-





Kingdom: Plantae





Class: Magnoliopsida





Order: Violales





Family: Violaceae





Genus: Viola





Species: V. tricolor





Subspecies: V. t. hortensis





The Pansy or Pansy Violet is a cultivated garden flower. It is derived from the wildflower called the Heartsease or Johnny Jump Up (Viola tricolor), and is sometimes given the subspecies name Viola tricolor hortensis. However, many garden varieties are hybrids and are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana. The name "pansy" also appears as part of the common name of a number of wild flowers belonging, like the cultivated Pansy, to the violet genus Viola. One or two unrelated flowers such as the Pansy Monkeyflower also have "pansy" in their name.





I hope this will be help.
Reply:http://www.daytonnursery.com/Indexes.pdf





Should help.


Can you reuse Tulip Bulbs?

My mom bought a Tulip and the flower is gone, the petals fell off and it basically died. But only the flower part. The rest of the plant is fine. The stalk is really green and strong. Is the whole plant done? Will it grow any more flowers of should I throw it away? My mom wants to replant the bulb but I want to use the pot she's going to plant it in for some herbs.

Can you reuse Tulip Bulbs?
Depending upon where you live, your mom can plant the bulb in the ground. It doesn't have to be planted in the same pot. It won't bloom again for a year, so why waste the pot? If she doesn't want to plant it now, she can store it and plant it in November, to bloom again next spring.


I live in California and leave mine in the ground all year. When I buy new ones, I put them in the refrigerator for 6 weeks to give them the cold treatment that they need.





I just moved to California from Holland, the tulip capital of the world. I have tulips everywhere, and love them. Tell your mom to go ahead and plant the tulip in the ground now, and enjoy it again next year. She can get more info on the websites concerning tulips/gardening.
Reply:They bloom once per year - the green is helping the plant store energy in the bulb for the next year.
Reply:you don't say where you live, but these directions are for where there are winters. (cold to moderate climates)


cut off the top of the stem so that no seeds will form, (that sucks energy from the bulb. DO NOT cut off the green part; let the green part turn yellow or brown, the bulb needs the nutrients for next year's bloom. The tulip bulb will then go "dormant" and it's then safe to cut off the old stem and leaves. you can leave a little stub if you want to.


From there, you can just leave the tulip in the pot and don't water it as it's now dormant, and it will be until it starts to grow again around February or March. then you can plant it in fall in a new pot with fresh dirt, or in the ground.





Or, you can take it out of the pot altogether once it's dormant, and store it in a paper bag. plant it in the ground or in a pot in the fall (October/November) depending on where you live. If you forget to plant it then, put it in your fridge crisper drawer for at least 6 weeks until you can plant it out. Give it some bone meal when it starts to grow.
Reply:Let it dry in a dark basement. after a dormant period replant and it will come up again
Reply:The stalk is gathering energy and storing it into the bulb for a flower for next year. You only get one tulip flower from a bulb, which is why they are so special. You can plant it in a sunny location, so the leaves get a lot of energy to store and give it some fertalizer for bulbs and it should die and then come up again and flower next spring. Then, if everything goes well, you'll have the tulip come up again every spring and bloom.
Reply:if u get good i give u a job planting 2lips
Reply:The stalk will disappear too. Tulips bloom once per year; normally in the Spring unless greenhouse grown. They will bloom again each Spring. Plants that come back every year are perennials. The plant goes dormant or rests usually over winter %26amp; where it is cool/cold Replant the bulb outside. Usually twice as deep as the size of the seed (in this case, bulb). Tulips normally are to be planted deeper than that.


I have a glass vase with a tulip or flame trademark on the base. what make is it?

the symbol is registered a nd seems to be engraved,though not sure if it is a flame or tulip. maybe it is an onion! would love to know who made it. thanks

I have a glass vase with a tulip or flame trademark on the base. what make is it?
it sounds like Isle of White glass, you can find the mark here halfway down the page


http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20not...

flower arrangements

Will anyone be going to the Skagit Tulip Festival this month?

It was my brother's birthday yesterday but he doesn't like it, he's concious that he's getting older. So I sent him an e-card without the words 'Happy Birthday' on it at all. However, I needed a reason to be sending the card - even though we both knew why I was - and did a search for Festivals on 1st April. I can't use the April Fool thing; we're both in our forties; I've done that one to death.





I found the Skagit Tulip Festival (60 miles from Vancouver in one direction and 60 miles from Seattle in another apparently) and used that in the poem I wrote to go on the card.





I was just wondering if anyone had actually been or planned on going.

Will anyone be going to the Skagit Tulip Festival this month?
I love the Skagit Valley and the Tulip Festival and yes, I've been even though I lived in Seattle at the time. The Northwest part of Washington State has numerous pockets of Dutch residents who are first and second generation Americans. My own mother was born and raised in Lynden, Washington, which is right near the border of Canada and Washington and is as Dutch as you can get. A tulip festival amongst the Dutch is like highland games for the American Scottish.





In my opinion, your card was very clever.





Happy belated Tulip Festival to your brother!
Reply:Yes, I'll be going. I live in Issaquah, Washington, just slightly east of Seattle. I'm a relative newcomer to Washington, and by the time I knew about the festival last year, it was over! I don't want to miss it this year, so I'm hoping to go within the next week or so. I'm including their web site, below.





In response to the first "answerer," who didn't answer a thing, the Skagit River Valley is most definitely "near" by our standards, and by my own. Sixty miles is only an hour or so away by interstate highway, and Seattle and Vancouver, BC, are excellent reference points for those not familiar with Washington state. Having grown up in Texas, I think the entire state of Washington is pretty small, as it could easily be tucked into the eastern half of Texas! No complaints, though - I love living in Washington.





A belated Happy Birthday to your brother!
Reply:I went to the tulip vestval several years ago. It is very beautiful. We spent the day going from farm to farm. Although it's mainly tulips, many farms have daffidols and irises as well.





The sights were wonderful, the weather nice, but my allergies were killing me by the time we made it to the 2nd or 3rd field!





Next year you can send him a card celebrating the Pierce County Daffidol Festival. My sister was her school's Daffidol princess.http://www.daffodilfestival.net/