Tulips

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Bugger. Found a bag of tulips bought in autumn I forgot to plant.

Any hope?

Keep them dry and dark and plant them in November. You never know

Tulips need about 14 weeks of cool weather to flower so unless you're living somewhere where the temperatures are still low I'm not sure you'll get any flowers. However, I'd bung them in anyway (unless they've gone mouldy/powdery), you've got nothing to lose. Keep the pot out of direct sunlight and you might get lucky and some might grow.

Great thanks. I I kept them in the pot or ground over winter, might they come back eventually? If I fed them now and next spring? I doubt they'd flower next year but possibly the year after?

Would planting things like chives and welsh onions with them work?

I treat tulips like annuals and plant new each year, but they can and do flower for a number of years (some types of tulips are better for this than others). If you're not going to move the bulbs once they've been planted I'd cut the flower stem off (keep the leaves) and give them a feed (tomato feed or bone meal), which will help reinvigorate the bulbs for the next year. If they don't flower (which yours might not given the late planting), give them a feed anyway as it won't do any harm. Chives and Welsh onions are just coming into flower now (SE UK) and they look great with tulips.

TweenageAngst is also right - you could keep the bulbs in a dry, dark place and plant in November.