A lot of hybrid tulips just don't return no matter where you live, but can be treated in such a way as to duplicate their native conditions. Most species are native to mountainous areas with lean, gravelly, sharply drained soil, where the primary source of moisture is melting snow in spring, but are otherwise dry in summer.
I knew an elderly man when I was growing up who had a stone raised bed in his front yard, where every spring he had a display of red tulips. After the tulips were done he filled it with annuals every year. He always stored the bulbs in onion bags hanging in his garage through summer, and replanted them in fall when he cleared out the frost killed annuals.
