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Whoever lived in this house before us basically dug holes in inconvenient places, threw in tulip bulbs, and buried them.

The tulips are starting to bloom, the problem is that they're behind shrubs and all clumped together.

Would it be ok to dig them up and replant them?

Thanks

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Pretty sure that spring is not the best time to do it. I think they need to be transplanted after they've gone back to hibernating.

Nothing like moving into a house and wondering why people did what they did, like using glue and nails for reparing a kitchen drawer instead of a screw like they should have .

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Yeah I'm pretty sure Babel's right and you have to wait until next year to have tulips in convenient places.

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People often dig up bulbs and separate them out and replant. Over time the multiply and clump. digging up and separating the bulbs gets better coverage and improves the quality of flowering.

In the part of the world I live many people NEED to dig bulbs up each season and store in net bags in the garage. Bulbs left in the ground in more temperate areas would rot if they stayed in the ground because temperatures get too high and it is too humid.(forget it if you are in the tropics!)

In fact, in some parts of Australia people keep bulbs (daffodils, anenomes, jonquils, tulips) in the refrigerator for about 6 weeks before planting. This is to give them a cold spell that nature may not (since temperatures fluctuate wildly even when it is supposed to be cooling down or warming up).



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Most likely you could move tulip bulbs so long as your careful and they aren't currently in full bloom. The only ones I've actually had trouble with are hyacinths. We've moved tulips and daylillies at all times of the year without issue but the hyacinth don't recover if I move them after they sprout and before they are done blooming for the year. I'm probably going to end up doing some bulb moving in the next month since random stuff just keeps popping up everywhere at the new house. Even in the middle of the yard with no designation that they are there until they started appearing last month. I think someone just walked around going let's put one here, and here, and over there in the middle.... It's impossible to mow the grass without chopping a bunch of flowers up.

We have the opposite problem keeping bulbs alive here. It gets way too cold for most. People dig them up at the end of the year and store them in the basement or fridge until the ground is no longer frozen.