Hi, In message <506A0321.6080408@gmail.com>, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com> writes >oldest bulb / corm /tuber and what's their earliest bulb-related memory? Oddly enough I remember large red tulips, I'd be about 5 and we'd not had a garden until then. At 'infant' school [1] the game was to grow bulbs out of soil - hyacinths I think. Longest survivor (bulbs) is the Iris sibirica hybrid pictured here on the PBS wiki: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… [1] age 5-7. -- David Pilling email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk web: http://www.davidpilling.net/