Fresh out of onions? Tulip bulbs are a must for every spring garden - creating colourful displays in beds, borders, containers and rockeries. These classic beauties are the perfect companions to spring bedding plants and they make superb cut flowers too.. Tulip bulbs need a certain planting depth to keep them in dormancy for the proper amount of time, to protect them from frost heave, and to keep them from drying out. These bulbs will bloom the following spring and produce the same flower as the parent plant. 5. Bulbs That Don't Need Chilling Tulip flowers are usually cup-shaped with three petals and three sepals. Unless the season is unnaturally dry, normal rainfall should suffice. Researchers found that you can grow gorgeous tulips in only mulch, 2 inches being the optimum depth. These tulips have been "forced" in nurseries, made to bloom out of season by careful manipulation of light, temperature and growing conditions. Bulbs can be purchased in early autumn. To grow tulip bulbs in water, select varieties suited to indoor forcing. Many people don't realize that there are two types of bulbs for indoor growing: those you need to chill and those you don't. Planting just one variety of bulbs per pot ensures that all the bulbs in the pot will bloom at the same time. Forcing tulips and or other perennials to grow is fairly easy to do in your home in glass jars or in other containers such as pots, canning jars or even an Easter basket. Tulip bulbs are commonly found in garden centers and catalogs for planting in fall. There’s a tulip for every setting, from small “species” tulips in naturalized woodland areas to larger tulips that fit formal garden plantings from beds to borders. They also sold daffodils bulbs. Mixing varieties in a container, on the other hand, results in flowers coming at different times, which has much less impact. To get the most out of your tulip plantings this fall, plant a combination of early blooming tulips, mid blooming tulips and late blooming tulips. Tulips symbolize imagination, dreaminess, perfect lover and a declaration of love.