happyday, by this late in the season most bulb suppliers are sold out of spring flowering bulbs or what they have left are the dregs and not worth buying. Even bulbs for forcing should have been started sometime ago (the common recommendation is by the end of October)....most require at least 8 weeks of a chill period (some even longer - hyacinths need 12-13 weeks) and then there's some regular growing time involved. So if planted today, you're looking at somewhere in the middle of April at the earliest before these bulbs might be expected to bloom.....not much earlier, if at all, from when they'd bloom naturally in the ground. Paperwhites are a bit different - they require no chill period, are usually already sprouted when purchased and often bloom within a couple of weeks of being planted indoors. And since they are not reliably hardy outdoors in much of the country, I'd expect M&Z to ship these bulbs out now.

Given that I'm in a climate zone where these things do well, I'm probably not the best person to give advice. But I can endorse the idea of Chilean guava in a pot. Mine was permanently outdoors of course, but it flowered and fruited fine for several years before I was able to plant it in the garden. The flowering is late enough that it won't be troubled by being indoors etc until the frosts have passed, and it doesn't require a long season to fruit. I don't know what level of frost it will tolerate - certainly some, but the places it grows best are cool and windy, so not frosty. There is also at least one feijoa variety that can be grown and fruited in a pot (the self-fertile Unique), but it is probably still too big to be moved inside, unlike the Chilean guava which is small. I don't have the space for kiwifruit or the climate for pomegranate (not hot enough in summer), so I can't help with those.

by the way where are you locaated at I have seen many trees in central texas that growing healthy and all have one thing in common, they are growing in the south side of a building, or on the east side and I have the pictures of them email me if you want to see the picts donwebbuz at yahoo

I hope you don't have much problem with fireblight in your area. Shinseiki is rated as very susceptible, and although Burnt Ridge rates Hosui as resistant, many other sources rate it is susceptible. I would much rather have trees with some disease resistance like Shinko, etc. I'm too lazy to spend lots of time spraying and pruning out fireblight infected limbs, and diseased and dead trees don't produce much fruit. The rootstock should work well.