Hi there everyone.

I'm hoping someone with lots of tulip knowledge can help me.

For some years my family has had lots of different daffodils and tulips planted in our front garden. But there are some.of particular importance that I'm concerned about.

See, my dad's favorites that he planted were black parrot tulips and they were amazing! They are particularly important because we lost him 3.5 years ago.

About 3 years ago my mom hired a lawn service to cut the grass and weed the flower beds. What she got was a man that came in during bloom season for the daffodils and tulips with a weed eater and he carelessly cut down everything to the ground. 2 years ago she hired a different man and he properly weeded but didn't seem any signs of bulbs anywhere so we assumed they all died.

Now, the bulbs had already been in the ground for probably about 3 years before this happened.

The daffodils surprisingly started coming up to full bloom this year, but the tulips all we get are the leaves. last year they were barely up, but this year the leaves seem to be pretty healthy looking.

Is it possible that just the main bulb was killed, and we may see my dad's beloved black parrot tulips bloom again from splits off the original and they just haven't matured yet?

Thanks.for the help. any advice to get.them blooming again is welcome!

Tulips are usually one year deal, after bloom, bulb is spitted to 3-4 small bulbs in a best case, or dies/ rotten in a bad case. If bulbs is spitted , it will need 2-4 years to bloom again, when year year leaves and bulbs will be larger and larger.

Very interesting because before the weed eater incident they were coming up every year...

I agree they may have split into smaller bulbs. You could always plant some more of that variety while you wait for them to mature.