Propagate by division or separation - Plant the bulbs 5" beneath the soil surface in the fall. After the leaves have died back following flowering, dig up the bulbs and allow them to mature in a warm, dry location. In the fall, replant large bulbs, and place the smaller bulbs in a starting bed to mature. When enlarged, plant them in the garden.

Remove faded flowers, and do not remove the foliage until it has yellowed and begun to die back (up to 6 weeks).
These tulips do not perform well in Zones 7 to 9. To grow in these Zones, purchase cold-treated bulbs and grow as annuals. A few cultivars are suited to perennial warmer growth.

More growing information: How to Grow Bulbs

Slugs and snails
Aphids

Bulb rot
Root rot
Gray mold
Nematodes

�Ancilla�: 8� tall plants with very pale pink blooms washed with rose, with rosy-red basal rings on both sides of petals.

�Corona�: 8 to 10� tall plants with foliage strikingly marked with purple. The blooms are pale yellow inside, bright red on the outside.

�Early Harvest�: 8 to 10� tall plants with yellow-rimmed and -based deep rosy-pink blooms. The insides of the petals are yellow with orange-red markings. The foliage has violet markings.

�Guiseppe Verdi�: 8 to 10� tall, early-blooming plants with thick yellow-margined red bloom. The insides are yellow with red basal markings.

�Heart�s Delight�: 8 to 10� tall, early-blooming plants with pale-pink-margined, rosy-red blooms with yellow bases marked with red. The insides of the petals are white, The foliage has purple markings.

�Johann Strauss�: 6 to 8� tall, early-blooming plants with golden-margined and -based wine-red blooms. Insides are white, and the foliage has purple markings.

�Shakespeare�: 8 to 10� tall plants with yellow-based, rosy-peach-margined red blooms, with deep peach-pink insides flushed with red.

�Waterlily�: 8� to 1� tall plants with cream colored blooms tinted yellow on the outside, and heavily marked with yellow on the inside. The blooms open up in the sun and resemble waterlilies