I planted some Narcissus canaliculatus and N. tazetta (paperwhites) at our new house in Orange County, California sometime around 1972 while in high school. Mom still lives there, they still bloom every spring, and I still take care of that bed when I visit her, so they sort of still belong to me. Along with non-bulbs, I have added to the bed over the years hybrid Hippeastrum, bearded Iris, and recently what was bought this spring from the UC Irvine Arboretum as Scilla natalensis, properly Merwilla plumbea, but is actually a Eucomis of some sort. Its twin in the package came to Phoenix and promptly melted when it hit 110 F this spring. The oldest bulbs in the ground here at my house in Phoenix are paperwhites, planted not long after I bought my house in 1986. I'm one of those who love the scent. My oldest container bulb is Drimia (Urginia) maritima, bought as a seedling around 1999, and blooming for the first time last season. (It also bloomed this year but seems not to be self-fertile. Three other seedlings bought a few years ago from the Huntington aren't nearly blooming size.) I didn't start growing bulbs until later in life. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA