The question (and Peter's answer) intrigues me. Since we're PBS I suppose we should narrow the field. What's everyone oldest bulb / corm /tuber and what's their earliest bulb-related memory? My question so I guess I get to go first. I remember my mother grow some paper white narcissus in oyster shell chips. They were started off in the dark cupboard under the sink. That was a number of decades ago, more than I'm going to admit to in public. For longevity - has to be the Cyclamen persicum that my parents brought back from Israel as a fell out along the roadside tuber from Jerusalem in 1973. No restrictions back then, though I have a faint recollection that my father was sent to the bathroom and wash it a bit more. This delightful plant has lived under grow lights behind a false wall in a Connecticut basement, in a cool guest room, and now has the luxurious accommodations of a cool greenhouse. It started into growth about a week ago and I look forward to its extravagance of bloom this winter. Judy