Stop blaming yourself because those tulips that you bought labeled “perennials” never came back for you. Tulips are technically perennials — if you live in a climate with cold winters and hot dry summers — otherwise they act like annuals. You might plant 30 and only see a handful return the next year. Why? Could be a number of things. Spring temperatures rose too quickly and the foliage died back too soon, your winter wasn’t cold enough, spot was shady, soil was clay-y. So many reasons make it e