I have just found the tulip bulbs

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which I ordered and were delivered last year.

shall I stick them in the ground and hope for the best for next year, or keep them somewhere until next autumn/winter, or chuck them out?

they don't seem to have sprouted, but there may be the odd shoot here & there.

I'd stick them in now, chance it...but I'm that sort of gardener :)

Because of illness and inefficiency, I didn't plant some of my tulips until March and they have been flowering for a week or so (although some came up blind). I found some others today that looked ok - not wizened and shrivelled - but decided I wasn't going to experiment any further and chucked them away.

If you've got the time and the space, why not plant them in a pot and see what happens?

I often plant bulbs at the wrong time, I find them at the back of the shed! I would stick them in somewhere, I never throw things away!

I planted mine in pots last autumn, 4 came out, looked lovely.. (those fiery red/yellow ones).

a)Keep them somewhere cool and dry and dry till the autumn. They may keep or they may rot. or
b)Plant them now: they may shoot leaves but they wont flower, and the leaves may or may not be enough to feed the bulbs for next year. They will take up bedding space.

tricky.

hmm, plenty of good options to consider...thanks everyone.