Zone eight is not likely to be cold enough to properly chill your tulips for next years bloom. You can chill them in their pots if you have refrigerator space. Most of us will need to remove the soil from the bulbs and chill the bare bulbs. Storing them in their pots after their bloom is over should not be your problem. I would keep them in the shade and leave them dry, summer temperatures are not a problem if left in the pots in the soil they were growing in. If you have the refrigerator space I would start watering them in their pots and refrigerate sometime in October to start root growth for next spring. Al

Great. Thanks. I knew I had to put them in the frig. for a couple of months this year but wasn't sure about next year, and the year after, etc.
I'll put them in the shade in the pots, dig them out in Sept. and put the bulbs in the refrigerator and plant them again in the pots in Nov. Am I right?
Any special way to treat them for refrig. storage? Paper bags, plastic, etc.?

You don't have to leave them in their pots through summer unless that is convenient. After they die down in their pots you can wash off all the soil and spread them out in the sun to completely dry, It takes two days here spread in a single layer. To keep them until chilling time I hang mine in mesh bags in a cool dark place. Before chilling I sort them for size and throw out any that may have mildewed. I put them back in the mesh bag (bags that onions are sold in work well) and put in the refrigerator till planting time. You can plant in pots or the garden. Al

What part of the country your zone 8 is makes a difference on whether or not you need to do all this extra work to have tulips.