Old tulip bulb question

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Please don't be cross with me! I know I am a careless and negligent person and I am already deeply ashamed of myself.

I think it was in October 2019 that I bought the twenty tulip bulbs I have just found, in their original packaging, under an upturned wooden tray in the greenhouse/plotting shed. They were out of sight, Things happened at me, and I forgot they existed.

They've been kept dark and dry (even if it was by accident), they haven't sprouted, and they feel quite firm not gone squidgy the way old garlic does, so now I am wondering whether there is the least point in planting them this autumn.

Has anyone had any success planting tulip bulbs this old?

Meh, it happens, no one will tell you off!

They definitely won't grow where they are, so it's worth planting them. Then there is at least some possibility!

Thank you. That's comforting... And good advice about some hope against no hope. I've put a note on the calendar on 1st October saying "Plant tulip bulbs!" so that I see it when I turn over the page.

Defo plant them up. If they’re still firm and haven’t got mould then there’s no reason that all is not still intact inside. (Have I double negatived there?) Do plant them though, I’ve put in all sorts of random forgotten stuff and most of it has thrived.

Yep - plant them!

I think some of them will come up , bulbs are resilient if they have been kept well.

I have made this sort of error, but whenever I've turned up a bag for forgotten bulbs they have usually become rather shrivelled. Good luck, they'll stand a better chance in the ground than they will if you chuck them away!!

Thanks to all for the kind and encouraging words.

I shall plant them in a group in the bed at the front, where there used to be tulips years ago, and then even if only one or two make it it won't be a disaster.

On the advice of my next-door neighbour, who saw when the people who lived here before us planted their bulbs at the front, I went out today and put them carefully into the front flower-bed near the Rowan tree, with their tips about four inches below the surface. Maybe they will grow, maybe they won't, but at least I will have tried.

Thanks to all who stopped me from throwing them out in the summer.