Tulips are not good perennials in Mississippi. They need 6 - 8 weeks
of real winter cold, so you would need to buy any new tulip bulbs in
the fall, chill them in a paper bag in your fridge 6 - 8 weeks, then
plant outside or in pots. They will then bloom. Once the leaves have
died back in late spring, you either dig them up to store or toss.

As for your current set, I doubt there's much life left.

On 23 Apr 2005 11:31:30 -0700, "Bear Drummer"
wrote:

My mother bought some tulips to plant in an area that was already
designated for other things... so they were put in pots out in the
sun... they were forgotten about by me, while I was setting up the rest
of the garden, and since nobody else was thinking of them, they dried
up.... Then they were watered, and subjected to a 3 day rainstorm that
knocked them down - as well as the fact that there weren't drain holes
in the pots, so they were overwatered. One of these several things
made the parts above ground die.

My question is - living in south Mississippi, there is enough growing
season to start over... how should the bulbs be prepared to do this? I
am not familiar with bulbs, so I really have no clue as to what to do...