I would. I have planted as early as October and as late as December here in Kentucky, they have always done well.

You can plant them until the ground is frozen.

I am trying to resist ordering more (I saw a collection of 300 mixed lavender, pink and white tulips, hyacinth and anemone for $15!!!) since I just bought several bags at a clearance. I don't really know where I will put all those much less another 300, but the picture is so lovely....

I love tulips, but growing them down here is more work than I'm willing to put out for such a short bloom period. We have to dig up the bulbs after bloom and foliage die back, then store until mid-late summer when they have to be refrigerated for 2-3 months before replanting.

Every now and then I get carried away ordering bulbs but then they arrive and I procrastinate getting them into the ground. One year DD was home for semester break and the two of us finished planting them them the day after Christmas.

I ordered 100 bulbs last month and I hope to finish planting the last of them tomorrow. I just checked my zone - and we're 7a (when I moved here 33 years ago we were 6b0.

I have never really gardened so we have some one who makes sure they get in the ground. He gave us a green light.

I ordered a bunch of white/green and deep purple for the front of the house, and a mix of purple and white Allium for the back of the house, and then a bunch of daffodils for the beds on the far side of the pond.

One thing I have learned is that pale flowers get lost in a landscape. I am not really a fan of purple per se, but I do not like any warm colors so it works for impact.

One thing I read recently was that your will do better if you disabuse yourself of the notion that tulips are perennials. I have had a love hate relationship with them because, after year 1, they always disappointed.

In my area ZONE5 you have to wait until the soil is colder and plant before the ground freezes. So I plant any where from the end of October into November.

I'm 6A

So planting now is great for you! Sounds like you are going to have a beautiful garden!

Thx, I hope so, plaft!

Yes, as mentioned you can plant right up and through December as long as the ground isn't frozen.

I wanted some of those "Ice Cream" tulips but never got them ordered. Has anyone planted those?

Mtn, harvest the flowers for the house or trim them off after they fade. Don't let them go to seed. Keep feeding them until the foliage fades. Resist the temptation to cut that foliage down until it dies naturally. The bulbs need to gather resources for next year. Tulips like some composted horse or chicken manure mixed with rotted leaves. Lay the bulbs on newspaper and spray with fungicide. Let them dry and then plant at least twice the height of the bulb under the soil. If the area gets constantly wet all summer, you may need to mix in sand or something so they won't rot.

I'd never seen the Ice Cream Tulips, but WOW! They are great!

There was a gardening expert on one of the local news stations the other day. Although we have mild winters here, we have been a little above average in our high temps for this time of year. Here you would ordinarily plant bulbs in the fall. The gardening expert said they could still be planted here. Our problem here in TN may be will it get cold enough (and for a sufficient period of time) for good blooms come spring. So I would say you could still plant them. My problem is with the squirrels and other little creatures that dig up my bulbs! LOL I still have some flowering bulbs in landscaped areas but I buy some of the actual plants each spring and add to mixed potted gardens. My favorite (of course) are pink tulips!

I had the same problems with chipmunks and squirrels, I bought a roll of chicken wire and wherever I planted Tulips I put the wire on top, in the spring as the green started to peek out of the ground I watched and when they got a bit bigger I removed the wire. Also I have changed my plantings this year due to tulips not lasting but a year or two and I planted daffodils, and Alliums. The rodents do not care for either and they will come up year after year.

Yes, that's the tulip, My3dogs. Intriguing. I wonder if they really bloom like that? I don't think I have time to order, most companies stop deliveries in November.

plaft, I also used chicken wire this year after planting two new beds of daffodils in the orchard. My problem is with skunks or raccoons digging the bulbs up and tossing them aside, sometimes the next day I'll go out and have to replant. I've already removed the wire, thinking I'm safe. We shall see.

Schoolhouse, many companies are still delivering now, but a lot of things are sold out, too.

Kitty, we have a team of gardeners who have managed our property for 20 years, long before us. They appear quite expert and are very diligent. OTOH they may make choices to keep things looking best all the time. And I don't think they dig up the bulbs at the end of the season; the labor to do so on a few hundred bulbs is prob more than the cost of the bulb? At least in our labor market.

Plaft,I don't think we have lost too many to critters around the house beds, but on the far side of the pond yes. That is why I use daffodils there even though they are not a fave.

TinaM, my fave are the pink angelique. But at my house I feel they get lost; they are better in a vase then in a bed!