Leaves are required to replenish the bulb for next year's flower show... adding a little bulb food to your bulb bed would be a good thing to do, unless you've recently amended the soil... in which case, they'll have plenty of nourishment available. My bulb bed contains tulips and other spring blooming bulbs, and in between those, I planted perennials that keep the show going all summer, not to mention hide the bulb leaves as they begin to fade and turn brown... With all the other flowers blooming and growing around the tulips, you never notice that the leaves aren't green and lively! There's nothing you really need to do with tulips once they're finished blooming, beyond allowing the leaves to photosynthesize food for the bulb, itself.

You didn't ask this :) but I just want to pass on this tidbit for people with pets. Tulips are poisonous. Just *how* poisonous I don't know, but I learned this when the owner of where I lived pulled up all his tulip bulbs, threw them over the fence to an area my horses could get to. I did a quick look on the Web and then went out to grab them up and put them in the garbage. I also had, at the time, one dog that would pretty much eat any thing---- and that worried me also. So, just in case.......

Hi, You'll probably get more comments if you post this over in the discussion section. That's where most folks are. :)

You could still plant them (bury the sprouts too) and they will need some time to root... But they should eventually send up some foliage and possibly a few late blooms, but should hopefully be back on schedule for next year.