Bulbs: Time to show off those daffodils!, 0 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
This is my Australia and NZ bed in the front yard, but way off to the side. It actually goes way off to the left of the picture, but I didn't get it from that angle I guess.

I started planted inthe NZ/Aus bulbs over there because the soil was so nice, but mostly because the bulbs imported from the southern hemisphere have to be kept cool over our summer the first year they are here (because the bulbs think it's winter). When we get the bulbs in spring, they think it's fall and it's time to root.

The Antipodal daffodils bloom really, really early and I'm past peak on them. I was told it's because they have aphids? or some sort of piercing sucking insects that come out earlier than they do here and transmit virus from flower to flower (bulb to bulb/plant to plant) They want to get the flowers up, bloomed and their 6 weeks of post bloom chlorophyll senthesis out of the way before the nasties come out.