If you forget to fertilize in autumn, give your bulb leaves a foliar feeding of kelp emulsion in spring after they've grown some leaves. Remember that after blooming, you must keep watering the bulbs regularly and allow the leaves to make food for the bulbs via photosynthesis. That food will be stored in the bulb for next year's flower. Gardens with lots of bulbs can look sloppy some of the time, but you grow accustomed to it. When in bloom, the bulbs are spectacular.
Bulbs look best when massed.
Plant large numbers of one type and color together for greatest effect. If you mix things up too much, it will blend into something not as interesting color-wise from a distance. If you can only afford a few expensive bulbs, plant them all together, not scattered about. Plant masses of inexpensive bulbs such as daffodils or grape hyacinths and upgrade as you are able to each year. Snow Drops and Iris reticulata bloom at the same time as this flower.