You can put your new tulips in a vase with their nice straight stems, and the next day they are bent over and look like they have been dancing. They grow rather quickly too as I found out when Wayne gave me these tulips for Valentine's Day. When I got them , I trimmed them all the same length and put them in the vase with the heads just showing above the rim. The next day, they they had grown an inch with the white tulips growing more than the red ones.
I trimmed the white ones and put them back in the water.
Here they are 2 days later....notice how much taller the stems are, and again the white ones are taller than the red. I actually used a rubber band to keep them from bending over so the stems wouldn't break. Tulips are one of my favorite flowers, and since I got them from my love, it is a symbol to me that loves keeps growing too. 
