Hello Ina, For more information how to grow Cape bulbs and others, you should refer to the two best bulbgrowers I know and who live in New Zealand: Tony Palmer in Auckland and Bill Dijk in Tauranga Greetings Lauw de Jager -----Original Message----- , would those temperatures be combined with humidity? It is the humidity which is the problem. Not the temperatures in themselves. And it is too early in the season for these temperatures, so summer could be a problem. It is also the humidity which makes it impossible to grow quite a few things here