Our season finale starts tonight and ends TOMORROW, in a nail-biting finish, but I promise it will be one of those last episodes when everything works out fine, and not the kind where the hero gets shot and the heroine is tied to a railway line!
THREE of our top-flight Myths and Legends ipocs feature in the snowdrops:
DRYAD HERA, new this year, but long awaited, and her spouse with the roving eye, DRYAD ZEUS, go head to head, and perfectly compliment each other, at least in their snowdrop incarnations.
ZEUS’s lightning bolt streak of emerald contrasts with the softer feminine curves of HERA’s green mantle.
The flyaway outers of DRYAD PEGASUS, the fabled winged horse, look ready to lift the flowers aloft, and the deep green blaze on the snowy textured outers echos the dark green of the inners beneath.
Our new virescent DRYAD SONATA combines an eye-catching spear-like shape with contrasting apple-green shading and stripes on the outers, and deep green inners. The bright white oval over the apex of the segment provides a perfect counterpoint.
Two of our new autumn-flowering ARISTOCRAT group complete the snowdrop cast, DRYAD PRINCESS the taller sister with beautifully corrugated outer segments, while her sister DRYAD COUNTESS bears two separated marks on the inners – both share the vigour and strong perfume of the group.
Our final daffodils for the 2023 include AMBRIAL with her unique parentage of Narcissus marvieri and N. albimarginatus and 1-2 nodding golden flowers with slightly reflexed perianth – and more importantly the rich scent - inherited from its Moroccan father.
IVORY RIPPLE, from N. triandrus var triandrus and N. cantabricus petunioides, was much admired at RHS and AGS shows this spring, being awarded a PC at Kendal AGS show. The cool ivory flowers have conical coronas flared at the mouth and longitudinally rippled, hence the name.
LITTLE GOLDHEART has stolen a few hearts in her debut showing season. The 33 mm wide, buttery flowers, with their signature deep golden lining to the cup, pleased judges as well as visitors.
Brian Duncan’s award-winning PET LAMB caused a sensation when first exhibited, and still cuts a fine (very petite) figure on the showbench with its tiny white trumpets.
Finally, to finish our ebay listings, the multi-headed flowers of the bright golden GOLD BUNCH with its powerful perfume, and the crystal lemon and white LEMON PARFAIT, unscented, also finish our daffodil flowering season with their many late blooms.
