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Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« on: April 21, 2018, 02:40:14 PM »
The first autumn species in our garden is Narcissus viridiflorus.
This is the original clump growing up through a Teucrium subspinosa
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2018, 05:14:25 PM »
Wow!
Looks like you spent your holidays in Andalucia!

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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 04:48:15 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
Hi Gerd,
With the lack of rain it feels like we are in a hot Mediterranean climate!
The Teucrium comes from Marjorca apparently and is very drought tolerant.
We've been watering parts of the garden and have started on the Bulb Beds,
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2018, 03:07:10 PM »
I got this mini-miniatus from Lawrence Trevanion who got it from Harold Koopavitz in the US - first flower today,
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2018, 05:49:24 PM »
Crumbs! That's barely visible to the naked eye.  How cute!
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2018, 09:04:42 AM »
As ours fade yours spring up! Great to see these treasures.
MINIONS! I need more minions!
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2018, 01:55:09 PM »
We came home to find this narcissus in flower for the first time.
Grown from seed from Betty Clark in 2011, labelled "Narcissus tazetta patulus (? syn ochroleucus)", so she wasn't sure herself about the name.
This has flowered a month earlier this year and again the slugs found them first >:(
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2018, 11:17:47 AM »
Narcissus 'First Stanza' also did not escape the attention of the molluscs >:(
This is one of Lawrence Trevanion's autumn hybrids from crossing Narcissus elegans ssp fallax x N. 'Soleil d'Or'
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2018, 12:58:01 PM »
Another one from Lawrence, Narcissus 07-02 T, Narcissus tazetta lacticolor x N. elegans.
A very small tazetta narcissus in the rock garden,
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2018, 05:43:52 PM »
Another one from Lawrence, Narcissus 07-02, Narcissus tazetta lacticolor x N. elegans.
A very small tazetta narcissus in the rock garden,
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2018, 04:23:10 PM »
Hi Gerd,
we're very lucky with our climate as far as narcissus are concerned (not so good for meconopsis, though!).
We're also fortunate to have breeders like Lawrence Trevanion, Graham Fleming and Rod Barwick who provide a great range of narcissus hybrids for us to buy!
With Narcissus 07-02 T, (Narcissus tazetta lacticolor x N. elegans) when the flower opens the cup is a greenish colour and the orange develops after a day or so
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Re: Narcissus - autumn 2018 from April in Southern Hemisphere
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2018, 09:15:58 AM »
Usually Narcissus cantabricus is the first "hoop" to flower in our garden but this one is separate and unlabelled so I'm not sure if it is N. cantabricus or one of the hybrids,
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