It's too late to plant daffodils, but tulips and a variety of smaller bulbs for spring will be fine if you plant them now. I just received a package in the mail of bulbs I ordered way back in summer, when I had much more gardening energy left than I do now.
Every year I do this - I order way too many, and then I regret it when they arrive and I resent having to take the time to plant all these bulbs. But I grudgingly do it anyway so they don't go to waste, and then in spring I am thankful I did.
I tend to avoid tulips, although I did plant some with my kids a few weeks ago. I prefer the smaller, naturalizing bulbs. They bloom earlier in the spring when I'm absolutely dying for some colour in the garden, they don't look god-awful once they've finished flowering and they come back and even multiply year after year.
This week-end I will be planting:
- 25 mixed Darwin hybrid tulips (really? what was I thinking?)
- 10 allium "Purple Sensation"
- 10 species tulips "Little Beauty"
- 25 species "tulipa tarda"
- 50 iris reticulata
- 1 lilium "Canadense"
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