When to plant

I bought two Eucomis Aloha Leia in a pack and the information tells me to plant them in March - May. However I am wondering if that is too long to keep them, and should I plant them now.
The thing is I don't know if they will start to grow and how they would last the winter. I'm thinking of keeping them in the greenhouse.

Any ideas on what I should do ?

 

I grew those last year and I can't think why they are being sold now, they normally start growing in the spring and I keep my established Eucomis, in pots, fairly dry over the winter.
You could keep them cool, maybe in the fridge until temperatures drop naturally.

I don't think it would be a good idea to start them into growth now.
But any thing is possible.

 

Thank you @pete, I have two types of Eucomis and like you I keep them dry and cool in the winter. I think I'll do as you suggest and put these new ones in the fridge until the autumn and then plant them and put them with the other Eucomises until they start growing in the spring.

 

The aloha hybrids sound interesting!
I have bicolour, comosa, autumnalis. pole-evansii(or whatever it's called now) and sparkling burgundy which is the only one that didn't flower this year, however that was in the greenhouse and stayed in leave over the winter. it was probably too knackered to flower as well! I might decide to dry store the bulbs, but room is at a premium with the competition with dahlias, cannas cycads etc. Might just earth them up more

 

I might add, that particular variety rotted on me over last winter and didn't reappear this spring, kept in pots in the greenhouse.
I've given up on Sparkling Burgundy, its leaf colour just goes muddy brown after mid summer I find, I've got some overgrown Autumnalis which I grew from seed years ago.

I really only like Bicolor.

 

Thanks for all replies. I think I'll wait until the autumn and then plant them, but keep them dry until the spring.

I suppose the suppliers thought all bulbs should be planted in the autumn !

The two I've got are bicolor and vandermerwei. The latter is small and is my favourite one, but it hasn't flowered this year. The big bulb formed lots of little ones and I suppose I'll have to wait for them to grow a bit first.