Planted bulbs today - will they grow and if not, why not?

[sethstarkaddersmackerel]

OK I know you are meant to plant them in the autumn. But I only managed to plant half my tulip bulbs before everything froze. So they have been sitting on my windowsill in their packets and were starting to sprout, so I thought I may as well bung them in the ground.

so - is there any chance they will grow?
and if not why not? is it because they won't have a chance to make proper roots before they start to flower? or....?

it's better than wasting them...i am sure they will try and grow!

I planted daffs and tulips in March last year, just to give the bulbs a chance rather than writing them off. They did come up and flower, but were poor tragic stumpy things that looked like they had dwarfism - I felt so guilty! I hope they'll have a better time this year.

now...i am remembering something about them needing to be cold so they know when it is the proper time to flower

could be bollocks though!

i don't like tulips, except in a vase.

it's meant to get colder again next week. Maybe that'll do to convince them it's the winter.

Last year the garden was a bit empty between daffodils and foxgloves so I'm hoping the tulips will fill the gap.

Am so glad you posted this, I've just done the same thing

I bought some sprouting bulbs a couple of weeks ago and bunged them in my pots. Surely they wouldn't sell them now if they were too late to plant out?

oh well, fingers crossed!
did you buy them from a reputable retailer?

Of course. Lidl

Even if they don't come up this year they will grown next year.

Did the same myself and at the end of the spring season when daffs etc are all dying I will go to garden centre and buy pots of 'dead daffs bulbs' for 20p and plant them in the garden. Never remember where I have planted stuff though so garden can look a bit random in places...