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Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on March 17, 2013, 11:56:09 PM
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Don't know if Maggi will want to add "in the South Hemisphere" to the title - but I can't add these pics to the current "spring flowering Narcissus" thread obviously!
I received this as Narcissus serotinus but I'm presuming it's what we are now supposed to N. obsoletus.
Flowering on very short stems - possibly because they were recently repotted and kept under shade-cloth.
cheers
fermi
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A second pot of narcissus obsoletus is in flower now - the first still has a bloom or two opening!
No sign of Narcissus viridiflorus yet.
cheers
fermi
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A very nice pot-full indeed, Fermi! I have not managed to achieve success with this species yet; either my climate doesn't suit it or I don't know how. :-[
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Fermi, thanks for these autumn flowers in (my) spring. Looking much better in sufficient
sunlight!
Gerd
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No sign of 'grass' in my pots of seedlings yet.
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Hi everyone.
I missed my daffs over the last season.
Settled in Melbourne now and just bought some standard hoops at The Big W from memory, might have been Target.
Its nice to have something anyway.
Cant wait for the pictures this season.
Regards
Kees
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Hello Kees,
Great to hear from you that you are getting settled in Melbourne. Wishing you the very best, as ever.
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Hope to catch up soon, Kees!
Narcissus viridiflorus has started flowering here at last!
cheers
fermi
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No sign of mine yet.
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That is an impressive clump Fermi. Does the scent travel all round the garden?
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That is an impressive clump Fermi. Does the scent travel all round the garden?
Not in the chilly hours of the morning when I took the pic! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Getting chilly here too Fermi. Had to drive my son James to hockey training at 6.15 yesterday morning and it was 10oC on the car thermometer! :o Only got up to 23oC during the day too. I think Narcissus viridiflorus flowers in late October/November in its native Spain. We are on the same latitude more of less, but in the southern hemisphere, so that would make it flowering end of April/May here. We still haven't had any meaningful rain, and these chilly nights are cloudless.
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Narcissus viridiflorus has started flowering here at last!
cheers
fermi
Fermi,
Looking at your plants it seems the species does better in your region than in its homeland
Spain.
Gerd
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Great clump of viridiflorus, Fermi!
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Just recieved a note to say that Trevanion Daffodils' website is up and running with a new catalogue : trevaniondaffodils.com.au (http://trevaniondaffodils.com.au)
Just put in an order and hope it arrives before we leave for Prague!!! Sorry that you won't be able to order from overseas, but it's worth a look at the breeding if you like tazettas!
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi
Are there any other good places to get hoops and miniatures around Melbourne or Aussie in general.
Any help is appreciated.
Ta
Kees
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My Narcissus viridiflorus are just beginning to open. Last year I had one flowering bulb. This year it looks as if all seven of my bulbs will flower. Interestingly, last year I used pollen to dust flowers of Narcissus papyraceus, but there is no sign of leaves of this one yet!
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I recently had a 'pot' of N. serotinus flowering for the first time (yes, I know I'm not the best Narc. cultivator, ever...), now I see ovaries starting to swell - is this species self-fertile, or am I just imagining things? ???
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I am not sure if N. serotinus is self -fertile or not, Rogan - but I do know that narcissus can be very "good" at swelling ovaries that then prove to be quite empty..... :'(
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In April 2012 Bill Dijk kindly gave me two Narcissus viridiflorus bulbs. The larger one produced a single flower in June that year. This year those bulbs have multiplied and will produce 9 flowering stems. You can see the pot at the front of the pic showing some of my pots of seedlings. I'll take a better pic when they are all out. I have twiddled with their bits to try and produce some seeds.
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Here is my pot of Narcissus viridiflorus today. Nine flowering stems. A tenth is just poking through the gravel. Time will tell if this is the token leaf! Not bad from the two bulbs planted a year ago. 8)
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Very nice Anthony.
How's the scent?
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They're outside so I can't smell a thing unless I stick my nose into them. Then it's sickly sweet.
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I feel it smells like warm vinyl. Not all that pleasant to my nose.
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I'm afraid I sold all my vinyls so I can't warm them to compare. ;D
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I've posted pics of 'First Stanza' here:http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9881.75 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9881.75)
at reply #89.
cheers
fermi
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Maggi and all,
"I am not sure if N. serotinus is self -fertile or not, Rogan - but I do know that narcissus can be very "good" at swelling ovaries that then prove to be quite empty....."
My single flower promptly set several big, fat, shiny black seeds - these I have planted and hopefully they will prove to be fertile; a pot full, rather than a single bloom would be a great boon 8)
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Yes! they are germinating, and probably 100% 8)
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Narcissus serotinus does germinate quickly. I have a potful of N. obsoletus seedlings.