I love tulips. The house where I grew up had a line of tulips along the side of our garage, and every spring they would bloom in these beautiful colors.

I'm getting into gardening pretty heavily now, I love it. And I LOVE tulips. I wanted to give my mom a Tulip for mother's day since we've moved from that house and we don't have the tulips anymore.

I saw some "holiday" tulips at the floral department at my local grocerey store and I asked mom, she said if I would have planted a bulb in the fall I could have had my own. That said, how do I plant a tulip bulb indoors and have it bloom in time for mothers day? I can't plant it outside, it's too late in the season for that--but how do I do it and when should I do it? Are there certain types of tulips that work better than others? (The ones we had at our old house were just tulips I guess--there was some red, some yellow and some orange--beautiful.)

Any advice?