PLANTS WE LOVE

winter-weary gardeners in spring, but many decline (or disappear) after their first year. To avoid disappointment, gardeners can treat hybrid tulips as annuals, pulling the bulbs after they bloom and planting fresh ones each fall, or dig and store the bulbs dry for the summer, replanting them before winter. But there’s an easier route: try species tulips. These bulbs are less showy than the hybrids, but they bloom earlier and they are more apt to come back year after year without special treatment.