Drumsticks, crocus, and hyacinths should all be perennials in your climate, so even if they don't bloom this year, they should bloom the next--though the hyacinth blooms will be quite different than the picture on the package. Tulips are going to be more problematic. If they are Darwin hybrids it may be possible to perennialize them if they are planted deeply enough. Other varieties may need more cold weather in the winter than you are likely to get there. That is, if I am understanding your climate correctly: do you garden in Sunset zone 8, or in USDA zone 8?

Kevin : )

Thanks! It's surely USDA zone 8, since I've never heard of Sunset Zone :)
Renee

Good! I guessed right!

The USDA and Arnold Arboretum hardiness zone systems were developed primarily to help farmers in the gentle climate gradients back East know when to plant their crops, or whether or not a particular variety of Azalea would freeze. They are based solely on winter lows, without any reckoning of summer highs, length of cold or hot periods, or rainfall and humidity. When you try to apply either of these two systems west of the Pecos, you get strange results: according to them, Phoenix, AZ is in the same zone as Tacoma, WA! Obviously two completely different gardening worlds!

The Sunset Zone system was developed when Sunset Magazine published their Western Garden Book, probably in an attempt to go around the limitations of the USDA zones. It tries to include the missing factors in describing the actual gardening climate, and turns out to be a much better indicator of what will grow--and what won't--in a particular part of the West. Below is an address to a PDF of two maps of California: one of the USDA zones, and one of the Sunset zones. I noticed that in some areas the two zone 8's coincided.

http://www.csgn.org/csysg_trainer/HO-Know%20Your%20Zone.pdf

On the other hand, USDA zone 8 also mostly coincides with Sunset zone 11--the mid-elevation desert. That climate has summer soil temperatures similar to my area, which is going to limit perennializing some of the traditional northern bulbs, which Sunset zone 8 is much friendlier to.

So you may be better off than I thought!

Hope this helps.
Kevin : )