My experience with tulips,
Appledorn and Darwin are the best ones to live long and divide, and continue to produce flowers
Michigan has a better climate for tulips than Indiana.When I lived there several gardeners I knew were always giving away tulips because they multiplied so well.Like perennials they need to be divided to keep flowering well.
I have not found the fancy tulips to flower more than 2 or 3 years here in Indiana, before just disappearing.
By fancy I mean the peony type , parrots ,and some of the new colors.
Currently trying the species type, no conclusive data yet
Oh yes one more thing :
rodents love to eat tulips.
