I am no expert, so take this with an appropriate skepticism. What happens with me is, I dig up bulbs, go "Hmm! Wonder what these are? Look like tulips..." I then put them somewhere out of the sun while I consider where they should go or if I care, then when I get to it, which may be that day or some days later, I put them in the ground where I think what I think they are could do well.
It usually works out okay.
