Thanks for the well wishes! To you and yours as well.
Hope you planted tulips, hyacinth, crocuses and snow drops - beautiful bulbs that I cannot grow in California.
I have a friend that tries every year to grow tulips, follows the guidelines, freezes them for six weeks before planting - and they never work. Year after year! I always strongly suggest she plant bulbs and rhizomes that work in our climate - daffodils, irises, gladiolas, amaryllis - but she will never give up on trying for tulips.
The best bulbs I’ve bought have come from Michigan.
Michigan is great for bulbs and we have many that are very old and still come up. I did plant miniature daffodils at the cemetery.
Re: the friend who freezes the tulip bulbs.....
I would venture to say that she should not “ freeze” them, but only “chill” them.
Freezing them is probably rendering them useless and ☠️.
A temperature somewhere above freezing but still very cool, like 40 degrees might just be “the ticket “ for successfully getting the bulbs to do their thing.
I worked at a business that forced tulips many years ago. We potted them up and placed them in “the cooler” for many weeks, then took them out and grew them in a greenhouse for sale in floral shops.