Can I plant my bulbs today? Not too cold?

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I'm on the South coast. We have had some frosty icy mornings. The thing is I still have three large boxes of different bulbs in the cellar.
Today is a nice day, sunny. Shall I plant them?

The garden is south east facing btw

Yes, plant them!

Is it too cold to
repot a supermarket
rosemary?

What about the West facing front garden? Shall I pop a couple there as well?
It has been a bit mad with recent storms and now this lovely fresh weather is very appealing

You have nothing to lose by planting them - they will probably flower a little later than if they were planted in the autumn, otherwise they may flower the following spring, but if you leave them in the shed they'll just go to waste 💐

Certainly plant them, but just check that you can actually dig deep enough to get them in. Otherwise pot them up to get them started and plant the whole pot out later.

Thank you so much! One box done another to go. The ones I did manage to plant previously have shown up. Nice!

You’d need to spend some time acclimatising it.

It’s a Mediterranean plant and likes good drainage. I’d probably wait a couple of months

I've got a load of mixed daffodil bulbs I got in the Homebase sale last week, need to get them in asap. I've got some new borders to fill and they were only 50p a bag so £5 for 15kg seemed like a bargain!

@MereDintofPandiculation how do you acclimatise the home kept plant?
Useful to know

Move it to a cooler place during the day, back into warmer at night, for a week or more. Gradually increase the length it's out during the day. Wait for a relatively warm period before you start letting it be out overnight. For example, if you'd already started hardening something off and were ready to have it outdoors at night, I'd postpone for a week or two given the weather forecast!.

I realise I was assuming the rosemary was heading outside (I'd just been reading the planting out roses thread). No need to acclimatise if it's staying indoors, but better to repot when it's about to start growing so any root damage can be repaired quickly,. so maybe March.

That said, we usually buy and plant bare-root perennials in the autumn.Though the RHS says spring as well.

@MereDintofPandiculation thank you! Very insightful
I'm a clueless gardener

Thank yeeeeeew! Im
leaving it inside the occasionally open
kitchen window in full light for now, watering etc. Seems happy. I’ve also steamed it a bit in the kitchen by the washing up.

Well, this thread makes a change from the nasal hair trimming thread 😅random
I will plant out my bulbs after the imminent arrival of snow.

I've just planted 6kg of my daffodil bulbs, weeding as I went. So only another 9kg to go!I've gone half way along my new beds, so another 6kg in the other half then 3kg along the back.I've come in to get my feet warm up and ease my back 🤣

I realised I’d missed the boat and ordered some snowdrops which I planted last week in big tubs and new compost. I put protective grids over the top to stop them getting hooked out by squirrels.
should’ve got snowdrops in the green but couldn’t find any

Plant them. I always plant in spring so I can see where the previous year's bulbs are coming up

Snowdrops in the green will generally be around Feb or march - so having finished flowering this year … but will come up next. I get mine online from Eurobulbs

Bit early, I think? Aren’t snowdrops in the green usually lifted after flowering? Maybe wrong there because bluebells in the green I planted lasted year were pre-flowering