Tulip planting in Nov?

[RaymondPeterfellow]

Morning all! I know the general advice is to wait until November to plant tulip bulbs due to Tulip fire. Since the weather has been so mild and warm, should I wait until weather gets colder?

Would also know the answer to this! And is it too late to plant daffs?

You can plant both tulips and daffodils up until the first frosts. I have planted some forgotten daffs in January which were lurking in the garage. They were fine.

No not too late to plant daffs. They do start to root early so it makes sense to plant them in Sept/Oct when the groubd is warm. However have planted them in January before now as found some that had been forgotten. They came up ok but a bit later than usual. Would plant the tulips now though as the weather will start to change. Although they can be planted up until mid Dec provided the soils not waterlogged or frozen. Good luck. Enjoy spring bulbs as they are usually so reliable and look forward to seeing mine in the grey days in Feb and March.

I’ve always planted daffs and alliums September while the soil is warm and tulips November / early December after the first frost.

Noticed on the Tulip packaging and a lot of suppliers’ websites that the advice was to plant Tulips before the first frost in Sept / Oct so this year that’s what I have done. I’ll let you know next Spring how that’s worked out for me 😂

I'll be honest, I bung them in whenever I get around to it, which can be anything from September to January, and it always seems to be ok.

Amazing! Thanks all, I will start planting this afternoon.

This is exactly what I was wondering.

I got my bulbs out to plant anyway, but then sadly have found they have all been exposed to some kind of mould, which I had identified online as Tulip Fire.

The write up online was so horrifying I immediately binned all the bulbs that had been exposed, and disinfected the place I was storing them.

Incidentally, two of my bulbs were clearly machine damaged, but J Parker have point blank refused to consider any resolution as it's more than 14 days post-delivery. I find this very disappointing.

Nope, tulips better after the frost.

I'm not planting mine yet. My mum's had a whole load of tulips wiped out; it's just not worth it.

I've always planted mine in October and they've always grown well

Gardeners World are just planting their tulips