Narcissus in April 2007

[tonyg]

Does the name 'Hawera' trigger the memory Paddy?

[fermi de Sousa]

I'd agree with Tony, but if not "Hawera" possibly one of the other triandrus x jonquilla type crosses.
cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

This is my 'Hawera'

[Paddy Tobin]

Tony and Fermi, you are both spot on. Mrs. Memory, dear wife of mine, is here beside me and says 'Yes, Hawera is definitely one we had but cannot now locate in the garden'. So, many thanks to you both; I can not put a name and a label with them.

Many thanks for the photograph, Mark. Yours and mine certainly match.

Happy Gardener here, Many thanks. Paddy

OH, Fermi, those nerine photographs were great - for some reason I couldn't reply from that page. Paddy

[Carlo]

Another for you...

www.botanicalgardening.com/noreaster-0407.html

Narcissus aquaticus..........

Carlo

[Anthony Darby]

Very good Carlo. We have a surprising number of this species along the banks of the River Alan in Dunblane, and they spend most winters with more than their feet in water.

[Maggi Young]

Like trying to get a word in edgewise with a person who manages to speak even as they inhale, you just have to wait until the storm runs out of breath

....from Carlo's site.


So, Carlo, you have met  both me and Robert Rolfe then!

[Carlo]

Well, Maggi, I have met Robert...

...and will now look forward to meeting you (suitably forewarned!).

For those who are worried about the poor narcissi, the water has now receded...

Carlo

[Maggi Young]

Carlo, you were at Alpines 2001, were you not? I have vague recollections of meeting you there, or was that one of 500 other people from the world of alpine lovers? !!!

[Carlo]

Start going through that list Maggi! It wasn't me...(not that I didn't want to be there..........

[Maggi Young]

I'm getting my North Americans mixed up, Carlo.  I realise now I have turned you into a hybrid of two other delegates, a question of names and places getting jumbled in what passes for my mind!
So, there is something for us both to look forward to!

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a lovely wee dwarf: Narcissus 'Bilbo'. I think 'Bashful' would have been more suitable as not only does it bow its head, but it blushes too.

[Maggi Young]

'Bilbo' is one of Brian Duncan's raising in Northern Ireland...... a neat little flower.... 'Bashful' was a name registered in the late 1930s to a division 2 (large Cup) white daffodil, said to be "of great substance" !

I have another daffodil, a bit bigger than 'Bilbo' but of a similar colour, perhaps more salmom in the pink... cannot remember its name... or where it came from... NOT Brian, I think  any ideas? It's about 35cms high.

[Anthony Darby]

I think it's a wee smasher.

[Rafa]

Hello,

Here some late Narcissus graellsii. This is a about 500m square with thousands of Narcissus graellsii.
The Economic Devlopmment from my country, based in urbanistic corruption destroy important surfaces every year with endemic plants like this.


Bye Bye Narcissus graellsii