Tulips

What are the best practices and systems for harvesting and post-harvest handling of flowers, herbs, and foliages before they leave the field and workshop, to safeguard that quality? This survey of 5 specialty cut-flower growers distills the collective and cumulative wisdom of three-quarters of a century of farming and selling flowers, from the Slow Flowers community.

Scheduling and succession planting tips + variety notes and recommendations for a successful harvest of forced tulips, from our research trials.

Learn about the process for forcing flower bulbs, including infrastructure and materials needed for achieving early blooms.

The step-by-step process of how to force tulip bulbs in soil, including chilling, forcing, harvesting, and common problems and pitfalls.

Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing TULIP bulbs (Tulipa spp). Read more for a successful cut-flower harvest!

Learn how we extend our tulip harvest 3-4 weeks at our Zone 5 Research Farm in Albion, Maine. Johnny's Flower Trialing Tech, Joy Longfellow covers key steps in planting, culture, and harvest, including key differences between field-planted tulips and those in the unheated tunnel.

Johnny's online Flower Bulb Catalog is shoppable, interactive, and downloadable — all the features that make for a convenient, ecoconscious shopping experience.

Join Joy Longfellow, Johnny's Flower Trial Technician for a close-up look at 'Queensday' tulip, with its bright, early- to mid-spring double blooms, long strong stems, and light, citrusy fragrance.

Join us in the tulip trial field as we discuss 'Mysterious Parrot', a richly colored parrot tulip.

Join a conversation on 'Queen of the Night', a late-flowering single tulip with an interesting deep purple color.

Join us in the tulip trials for a look at 'Foxtrot', a fragrant, double late-flowering tulip.

See the exceptional range of colors produced by 'Apricot Parrot' and learn about this variety's distinguishing characteristics.