Mentioning that our August is like your March, makes me wonder about the date the plants start flowering as I have not made a note of these before. And with the mild winter we have had, I suspect several of these are a month ahead of themselves. Some of the apple trees have not even lost their leaves yet. While Hydrangeas etc are putting out spring growth. And as for being opposite, I have just discovered what the work Antipodes means. And according to that Spain, Portugal and Morocco are the Antipode to NZ. Place is not all, but I wonder how bulb growing can compare. And as for the moss, it is the shady side of the garden, so yes, it gets moss there. And we get rain, at the moment we are going through 4 lows one after the other. The ground is getting soggy. Ina On 6/08/2012 2:08 a.m., Gastil wrote: > So your August down under would be like my March here. > Just look at all that moss! You do get rain. -- Ina Crossley Auckland New Zealand Zone 10