alan8 some will split and so will not be large enough to bloom the next year. If you want to replant the splits you can grow them another year and maybe they will be large enough to save for the next year. For the price of the tulips it is not worth the effort. This year I paid $12 for each bag of 60 tulips all of which will bloom, most will be from 24 to 30 inches high. I only replant tulips with a circumference of 12 CM or more. Most of the purchased tulips are 14 CM, but I have found that 12CM will bloom reliably. If you are using your regular refrigerator be aware that fresh fruit stored in the same refrigerator gives off Etheline gas which is likely to cause the tulips when planted to not bloom. Al

It's normal for some varieties of daffodils. The 1-3" long leaves can get some winter damage but it doesn't seem to hurt the bulb and it quickly grows out in spring. Simon

I'm curious why you just take them to the edge of the field and dump them? If they grow there, seeds will make their way back into your gardens. Anything I want to assure doesn't find its way home goes to the landfill or is burned. The field is close, and it is absolutely green with the sob each spring, along with the wild onions. There are very few that bloom, as the bulbs have divided so many times, they are most all very small non blooming sized ones. If I would take these to the landfill, it would be part of a truckload each week, for months, and I would have to pay to dump them, and it is on the other side of the county. I also dump some in a gully on the property. I dig a good bit of soil out with each clump too, to assure getting all of the nasty little boogers. The beds that I have cleared, and a bed where I removed all the soil to 6" has stayed sob free, so seeds aren't coming in, or at least not much. There are areas of the yard that won't grow grass because about 50% of the topsoil 6" deep are clumps of bulbs. I'll get pics next spring. Surprisingly, there are only a few clumps in the front yard woods. When the house was built, the lot was pretty well wooded. When the basement was dug, the builder ran into slate, so the house ended up farther out of the ground than it would have otherwise. As a result, the builder hauled in 65 dump truck loads of soil from the field...all of it infested with the sob. I thought of asking the manager but I imagined he/she would be clueless and wonder why I expected them for less. I would have just offered him/her $1 a bag, and told them that was what they were reduced to elsewhere since it was so late in the planting season. I'm not shy. I had the driveway blacktopped late one fall. Since it was so late (I was told) they did not put down any weed killer. The next spring the sob pushed up through the blacktop. The paving supervisor said he had never seen or heard of anything like it before. Sue

I've done it often (not with window boxes but other containers). Just make sure that the window box has adequate holes in the bottom for excess water to drain through. Gravel does not help with the drainage issue and can simply eliminate good root growing space. If you are hoping that the gravel can compensate for the lack of drainage holes, I'm afraid that you'll be unhappy with the results. I'm assuming that you intend to use the bulbs as a temporary display, something that you exchange for new bulbs every spring or with annuals when the bulbs are finished with their show. I may be wrong about that assumption. Why don't you tell us more about your vision so that we can help brainstorm with you a little bit better? I've always loved using cheerful bulbs in a couple of my containers.