Many spring-flowering bulbs, including tulips and daffodils, make excellent cut flowers. Blooms that are wanted for decoration indoors should be cut as soon as they are safely beyond the tight bud stage and show their first color. Most will then remain in good condition for about a week, sometimes more.

Before combining tulips and daffodils in the same arrangement, keep them in separate vases for 24 hours. The sap from freshly cut daffodils can reduce the vase life of tulips.

Note: If you cut flowers from a bulb that you want to grow and bloom again next year, cut only the flower stem. The leaves need to stay attached to the bulb to store up energy for next spring's blooms.