10 years ago because she could not get them to bloom and the ones i had were always beautiful year after year. i planted hers along with mine and they still have never bloomed.
here is a great link with step by step directions.
how wonderful that your caring for these bulbs. the exercise, change the position of the pens to diagonally up and down, both diagonally up, both diagonally down, and directly up and down.
caption: moving gaze to shaking pen.
try to do 5 rounds of these exercises, 3 times a day. to make the exercises harder over time, increase the distance between the pens. 