I have a tulip garden and the roots seem to have started coming above ground.....please read on.....?

There is a tulip garden where I am living that belonged to my grandmother.


it's been there ever since I was little.


see no one has taken care of the flowers in awhile, but today i did.


I was taking all the weeds out and it looked like the roots to the tulips were coming above ground too.


is this normal?


is there a way to fix this or should i just leave it be?


also the tulips have seemed to stray out of the garden, they are growing on the outside of the border we put them in


should i just make the border bigger or can i transplant them somewhere else?


can you help these flowers have been around a long time i would hate to see them die.


thanks in advance


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I have a tulip garden and the roots seem to have started coming above ground.....please read on.....?
It sounds like the tulips need to be divided; however, you should do this AFTER they bloom. Until then, cover the exposed roots with a bit of dirt, but don't worry too much about that, as it really won't hurt them.





Once they are finished blooming, dig them up carefully, being sure not to cut the bulbs with the shovel (a hand spade is best). If you see smaller bulbs next to the "parent" bulb, seperate them carefully (assuming they have leaves of their own), and plant them all back in the ground; if you want to transplant some, move a good mix of the younger and older buls.





As a general rule, use a hole three times as deep as the height of the bulb when you plant them again. Let them finish growing for the summer, and go dormant for the winter. Assuming that you live in an area that gets cold enough in the winter to force dormancy, you should have more tulips next year spring. Enjoy!
Reply:leave them be.Make the border bigger around them.They will come up every yr. they did for youre grandma.And yes it is normal for the roots to be showing on tulips.You can transplant them but,who's to say they wont ever come up again.
Reply:no its not normal.cover them. but not to deep
Reply:when the roots come out of the ground it means there is not enough topsoil, simply go to your local garden center and ,depending on the area of how many roots are showing, buy some topsoil not the expensive kind but the cheap kind should do the trick and your plants wont die, otherwise rodents or bugs could eat away at the roots cuasing all the plants with the roots exposed to die.





hope this help you

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