Sure if they get the correct amount of cold. They might not be full size since they didn't have the fall to develop the root structure.

They will probably come up.......but late and unlikely to flower. Snowdrops are already up and blooming in my area and crocus won't be too far behind. Just not enough time for new bulbs to be exposed to winter cold for a sufficiently long vernalization for this season. But they should be fine in following seasons.

Does it depend on how many more months of cold are expected? Up here, we're in for at least 6 more weeks of cold temps, if not more.

^^^ Yes, it does. But galanthus/snowdrops need 12-15 weeks of vernalization/winter chill; crocus about the same. I have planted tulip bulbs as late as the end of January or early February and they DO come up.......just quite late and they do not flower well, if at all.

I'm zone 6. We are lucky if the early bulbs start peeking up in March. It just depends on the spring. We still have frost in April. We can't plant annuals until mothers day or after.

12-15 weeks is 3-4 months!! So if these bulbs are planted now, don't expect to see much activity before mid to late May....much too late in the season for these to bloom.

ps. when one can safely plant annuals without risk of frost really has nothing to do with bulb planting 😊

That is why I told her they would probably not be full size in my first response. But they will live and survive.

I would also add that galanthus are somewhat tricky to grow from bulbs. The bulbs dry out easily if stored in the open for very long and they will also take a couple of seasons to settle in before flowering well. One gets much faster and more successful results if planting them "in the green" or as already started bulbs, available in garden centers now in many areas.

Oops, I shouldn’t have been so impulsive. I only planted 20 snowdrops, but 600+ other minor bulbs and daffodils in our fairy garden and other little spots around the garden. Those will keep me distracted :)

The westher won’t be helping them either. I planted thrm a week ago when it was an unseasonable 50F, then the temps dropped to 0-teens for several days. Today will be back up to a high of 50 and a low of 10. So erratic.

Any tips on amaryllis, daffodills and crocus are welcome to Amaryllis Man!

Scratch that!, Any tips on ANY flowering bulb are welcome!

You can find all manner of publications online that detail the ins and outs of planting and caring for spring flowering bulbs. In general, they are very cold hardy and planted in mid to late fall for spring flowers.

Amaryllis (technically Hippaestrium) are not winter hardy in your area (as are many other summer or later flowering bulbs) and if planted in the ground, will need to be lifted and stored, much like dahlias, glads, ixia, freesia, etc.

I don't know about amaryllis, but crocus and especially daffodils are hard to kill. Just plant them in the fall and they will come up year after year. They grow anywhere here. On sides of the roads, fields, inbetween rocks, lawns. Anywhere where they were originally planted at one time or brought in with fill. . The hardest part with daffodils is resisting cutting them back after they bloom and the leaves turn ugly. The best part is that deer don't like them.

i think there are 2 different issues here ...

enough cold to trigger the development of a bud for a flower ...

as compared to just getting some green leaves this year.. and flowers the next ...

you had fun.. who cares if it takes an extra year to bloom ...

i have my camera set to make the date part of the file name .. but the only pic i could find of spring flowers was grape hyacinth blooming on april 29th in my MI garden ... so the crocus should have been a week or two earlier ...

if you are in ground freeze area ... you would have a much later bloom time.. but then again.. you wouldnt have been out there planting them last week ... lol ...

zone really means so little in this case.. there are so many other variables rather than just minimum cold temp on the worst day of winter ... it can be the same temp.. whether or not your ground is frozen ...

ken

Can you tell/remember where you just planted these new bulbs? At least you can see what happens, and compare to your other Spring bulbs.