{"id":147,"date":"2007-05-15T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-05-15T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T02:19:10","slug":"rescued-tulips-wpoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Rescued tulips (w\/poll)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"images\/rescued_tulipsx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"rescued tulips\" SRC=\"images\/rescued_tulipsx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most common questions I get in winter is what to do with forced bulbs after they&#8217;re done flowering.  I answer that most people treat them like cut flowers and compost them.  But I add if that&#8217;s what they plan to do to please bring me the pot and plants.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll deadhead them and put them in a sunny window or a cold frame if spring is fast approaching.  When the leaves die back, I clip them off and stick the pots some place where they&#8217;ll stay bone dry.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the bulbs will rot.  Some will whither.  But come October, I stick the sound bulbs in the ground. As you can see, it can be worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>I never buy tulips.  They have a tendency to fade away rather than mulitply.  And the deer love them, though they seldom graze on the ones I plant close to the house.  I think it was Elizabeth over at GardenRant who wrote that the clown colors of tulips like these are a tad gauche.  I tend to agree.  But for a week or so every spring they make me smile.<\/p>\n<div>{democracy:3}<\/div>\n<div>{democracy:4}<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions I get in winter is what to do with forced bulbs after they&#8217;re done flowering. I answer that most people treat them like cut flowers and compost them. But I add if that&#8217;s what they plan to do to please bring me the pot and plants. I&#8217;ll deadhead them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rescued tulips (w\/poll)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}