what happen to the tulips?
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deer eat them, goats eat them. Probably rabbits will eat them. Did something eat them? Check the stems for tooth marks. One consolation, without the flowers the bulbs should produce bulblets and next year the parents will bloom again, the following years the bulblets will grow and produce. Feed the tulips now with a general fertilizer so they grow well this summer. The growing season is the time the bulbs actually grow next years flower.In the fall, dig the bulbs up, divide them and replant with bone meal supplement and your bulbs will grow very showy flowers the following spring! Happy spring everybody!
Sorry but I advise ALWAYS, leave your spring bulbs buried in the ground. These plants naturalize easily in our climates and do quite well with little maintenance. If you do live in an extremely cold climate, where it goes below minus twenty degrees celcius (about zero degrees fahrenheit) you would be well advised to mulch your flower beds for the winter with a good 4 to 6 inches of loose fall leaves, straw or animal bedding which means a mix of straw, hay, urine and manure. With a snow cover the frozen ground preserves many plant roots, bulbs and tubers. Here I even winter potatoes right in the garden soil for the winter with just a mulch. They need to be buried deeper than half a foot or more but in the spring they are crisp and sweet. Hanging your bulbs for any extended period of time will mean many of them will dry up and die. Sometimes I have this problem even with garlic bulbs that we dry and store on the wall in the kitchen for winter use. Flower bulbs are even more difficult to store and keep. Some bulbs should never be dried. There are varieties that only stand being dug up and immediately replanted. Have fun gardening!
Other answers:
Look for goats.
Look for goats.
Depending on where you live, rabbits are the most probable cause. Some birds also peck off buds from flowers, although never heard of them doing that to tulips.
The tulips may well make another bud - as this is naturual for flowers to do this, which is why we are encouraged to dead head our flowers to stop them going to seed and encourage fresh flower growth.
If they don't come back, then depending on how cold it gets where you live, leave them in the ground and wait for next Spring. If you have very cold winters, then best to lift the bulbs, tie them up and hang them upside down in a cool dark, dry place.