Well, you definitely need to plant them ASAP. Without a doubt, it was not the best idea to dig them up as they were beginning to make their major growth for the year. The best time to do this is after bloom, when the foliage is going dormant by turning yellow and flopping over. Lots of bulbs can be moved "in the green" (which is what you began to do) if you lift the bulbs and entire root system with a goodly sized ball of soil around the roots and immediately replant it in good soil. But before you try this again, be sure you have time to lift and replant them on the very same day. Okay, so you haven't done it well. Join the big club. But, that doesn't mean all is lost. Replant all of the bulbs, ornithogalum and freesias, right away where you want them, and dig some good stuff into the ground before you plant them, just as an apology to the bulbs for treating them so badly :) I would suggest some composted manure or compost. Do not fertilize them with a commercial fertilizer, though if you have some fish emulsion, you could mix it at half strength and pour it on after you have planted the bulbs. Try to set the bulbs in the ground at the same depth they were originally planted. If you cannot plant them where you want them, put them in pots. Then hope for the best. With a bit of luck, they'll emerge with foliage and bloom next year. With alot of luck, they may bloom this year. If you go the pot route, get your soil ready early and then move the bulbs after their foliage dies back. It will be easy to find them in a pot.

I bet if you chop off the existing stems it will send up a new one ;)

On a walk through of my flower beds I am seeing the daylilies and iris up, as well as the few tulips I put in last fall. Also, yarrow is back, I am seeing my purple and white coneflowers (transplants from a neighbor last year) poking little reddish shoots up, my potted blueberry bush is getting buds along the branches, my roses are putting up a bit of new growth, and one of my ornamental grasses has some green on it. On our enclosed deck my potted hostas, hydrangeas, and miniature roses are all coming back to life. And an asiatic lily that I bought last summer on clearance in a 3" inch pot, and then subsequently forgot all about and I assumed it was dead, got carried in by mistake when my kids helped me carry in the tender perennials and such. I meant to throw it away several time but kept forgetting. I noticed yesterday it is sending up new shoots! I have no idea how that thing survived my neglect. Nature is amazing! I wanted to put tons and tons of bulbs in my beds, but the drought we experienced here last summer and fall left the ground like cement. We couldn't even bust into it with a pickaxe. So we couldn't get bulbs in the ground. :-( Maybe this year I can!

Vicki, do they survive the weather and soil, and keep blooming following years? I did buy most of them at 50-75% off, before Christmas, and could not resist, though most people around here do not plant them, and say they don't come back. i have made alot of of soil amendments, so hoping they will. After scouring all my books for a yes or no, I planted them w/o any, confident, giving them a good water soluble 10-110 fertilizer when the poke out of the ground. Some were already growing, close to 300, 30 holes, daffodils, tulips, muscari, and some lily of the valley in the part shade areas. It was a lot of work for just one shot, hoping to be WoWed by them for several years, at least.. The last ones were tucked in about 9:30pm tues, just before the tornadic weather came through and hit our little town, they are well watered in. I will let you know how they do, for futere reference for anyone else planting them last minute.