My tulips are all in a refrigerator until the first week of December when they will be planted in the garden. I buy a mix of early, mid-season and late varieties and plant them together at the same time. This will give a longer season of bloom. As the early bloomers want to go to seed, snap off the spent bloom. Although the foliage will be gradually fading it will be hidden by the later bloomers and will not be objectionable. I always let my tulips foliage yellow and die back before digging as I save the largest bulbs for planting next year. Tulips I have saved (I only save those bulbs at least 12 CM circumference)will always bloom at least two weeks earlier than the earliest newly purchased bulb. It takes about 8 to 10 weeks from planting for the first bloom. We are a little warmer here than you, so I would expect yours to be a little later. Al

Hi Caleb, I have 3 different Amaryllis 'babies' that I planted this June and are about 2" to 3" tall. Colors: Unknown Red - very dark Peppermint - Red & White Apple Blossom - Pink & White As they are Babies it will be 2 to 4 years before they are big enough to produce blooms. How many Tulips is in your trade? If you are interest please let me know. Please email me direct so that I don't miss your post. Thank you, Marie

The funny thing is, that Walmart has tulips out with their spring bulbs here. These were left over from last fall, I remember seeing these bulbs in Dec still sitting there. If you can, I would take these bulbs back to where you bought them. Chances are they won't be of good quality at this time of year, and won't bloom. In high zone areas, the gardeners there refidgerate the tulip bulbs for 12 weeks before planting out for spring blooms. But they buy fresh tulip bulbs in the fall, Sept or Oct....and they don't get the frozen ground like we do....so they can plant out in Jan. Good luck with your tulip bulbs. Sierra

WOW, 250 tulip bulbs, I'd hate to have to plant all those, that's way more work than I can handle. I remember a time when I was organized but it has flown out the window. Reason for that 2 thing's DH and age creeping up on me. My DH is a pack rat, he has a collection of many thing's flash lights of all thing's, anything electronic. My man has a kitchen drawer he stuff's till thing's are over flowing and falling out the back. I have cleaned it out thinking I'll keep it clean HA wrong. So now I've taken to dumping out the drawer once he's stuffed it into a box tell him here's all the junk from the kitchen drawer where do you want it LOL. Right now the last time I cleaned it it's stayed clean, this is the longest time it's stay this way so maybe there's hope for that drawer anyway. After a while I gave up trying to organized that man's thing's and now I think he might have rubbed off onto me :/ It is a pet peeve of mine, it drives me nuts not to have thing's in their place to have handy when needed and then I started catching myself from time to time losing things cause I didn't put it back where it belonged and I have been trying really hard to get back to keeping everything neat but for some reason it's not been working.