How deep did you plant them. The tops of the bulbs need to be six inches down. They need to be fertilized with blood and bone meal and need several good drinks of water fortified with epsom salts during the growing season.

Bulbs planted to shallowly, or fertilized with the wrong fertilizer have stunted blossoms, and sometimes stunted stems.

I hope you find this useful.

Lainey

Thank you Lainey. I just figured out after posting that I should have been using acid based fertilizer. Otherwise, I had done everything else right. I do believe the prolonged winter drought here has something to do with the poor performance. I am in the process of fertilizing and top dressing as they stop blooming and hope that will snap them out of it next year. Thanks again.

Sarah