There was an article in one of last year's issues of Canadian Gardening. The writer told of going outside with some bulbs she got as a gift for Christmas. She put some snow over the spot where she wanted to put the bulbs. This softened the ground for her it seems. Then she went back and dug her holes and planted them.
They came up in
spring and looked just as good a anybody else's tulips.
I was given a bag of them from my neighbour next door - so sweet of her. I put them in the fridge. That's what an old chap who used to live in this building did every year - he let them sprout in the fridge and put them on his balcony in
spring -he swore by that system.
I don't know - I'm undecided on that one.
I might just put them in a pot and let them come up in the window. Washington? I think that's what you oughta' do too.
Good luck with that.