Planting bulbs in January

[Simon_GH]

I've bought a pack of bulbs and wonder whether it's too late to plant them in time for this year?

The pack contains:
Ailium
Daffodil
ipheion
Muscari
Snowdrop
Bonanza
Tulip Miniature

Many thanks in advance!

[Byker28i]

I ended up with a 10kg sack of Dafodils and planted them out in Oct... so did my neighbours as I handed them out. They are now starting to come out now.
I also bought Tulips at the same time.

Most of those bulbs suggest planting Oct latest according to the sheet which came with my bulbs.

[TimmyMallett]

You can plant out but they may not come out this year. You could stick in tubs in the dark and cold for a month and then bring them out.


I planed tulips and daffs out in Oct and the daffs are coming out and a couple of tulips but the cold snap has halted them a bit thankfully.

[vixen1700]

If you get them in now, you should be fine for early March.

Planted a load of bulbs in tubs and in the ground about four weeks back, and some are starting now. Daffs, tulips etc.

[oyster]

You can actually get later flowering if you delay planting.

I keep some bulbs aside until late-Feb/early-March, that way I still get daffodils flowering well into April and May.

[8-P]

I would tuck them away in the cold and dark and then plant them later in the year. Or do 50/50 and that way if things don’t go so well this year, you still have some.

[Simon_GH]

Thanks all. I’m going to split the risk as suggested and see what happens to half of the bulbs this year and save the others for October.

[8-P]

I would also do them in pots. Assuming they all flower you can then find a place in the garden to put them either as they flower or once they have died down.