you can probably pot them.. and baby them thru the bad weather .... and then plant them as usual in fall ...

i agree you will probably miss flowers this year ... but anything is possible ...

if you dont want to just plant them.. and let them fend for themselves ... pot them ... i do NOT recommend.. just leaving them in the packs until fall ...

ken

No, the timing is all wrong (even for France). This is unscrupulous marketing (for ranunculous) since they are totally attuned to daylight length, water and heat. This (selling tubers at this time of the year) is why forums are filled with baffled customers wondering why they have such trouble growing ranunculus (and anemone coronaria). Unless you paid £££ (or many dirhams?), then bin them and start over in autumn (the...and consider raising them from seed - a far better outcome and possible in 5 months from a September sowing).

Living where you do, if you can acquire fresh tubers in late summer, you should have a very good chance of succeeding with these plants - most of us in cooler climes have to force their growth in January to coincide with the vernal equinox (when they really want to break into flower but need sufficient foliage).

Although you could, rather than simply tossing them, plant them up as an experiment anyway.

Agree with the above......wrong timing on these. Started, blooming ranunculus plants are for sale in area nurseries as we speak!!

Campanula UK Z8 : actually never had a problem with planting them and getting flowers but the lastest period I planted them was January that was in 2017 . last year I planted them in October, and they did bloom, the problem with this year is that I lost them somewhere and we didn't have any in the local nurseries, so I had to order them from France.

I did hear that some in California plant them even now, our climates are quite the same, but some warned me that they won't com up with flowers. so I might replant them in the normal season I guess, I'm between 2 alternatives either planting them and not getting flowers or waiting till next autumn and they might get damaged, so I'll plant and pray lol

Yes, they will likely shoot but flowering is initiated by daylight - they are short day plants and must have flower formation triggered before day length increases beyond a 12hour cycle. Planting in January is just about OK - that is the month we would trigger our autumn sown tubers into growth (by watering the pots which have been kept very nearly dry all winter) because we want at least 10 weeks of foliage growth before blooming. So, you could plant them now so they will trigger flowering around September 21st (which, for many of us, would be too close to the first frosts but could be OK in your climate. For sure, they will do nothing while still in a bag. Why not go all experimental? Split the bag, plant half now and keep half in a cool place until the normal autumn planting time.