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Narcissus in April 2007
Diane Whitehead:
I received many packets of Narcissus seed from the 1997 AGS exchange.
Here, after ten years, is the first flowering - N.bulbocodium tenuifolium.
Next year perhaps all the others will bloom.
Maggi Young:
Ten years, eh? Just as well you have kept busy in the meantime, Diane, you could have been really bored waiting otherwise!
Diane Whitehead:
10 years isn't too bad. It took 32 years for the Embothrium I imported from Hilliers to bloom.
But, getting back to bulbs from seed: I sowed Colchicum bornmuelleri and C. autumnale MESE 302 in 2000. All seeds are still sound (I dump them out to count every year or so) but all are ungerminated.
Much better success with Narcissus. N assoanus from the SRGC exchange this year is growing lustily already. I'm going to fertilize it as Ian says, and maybe these will flower in only five years.
Armin:
Hi - enclosed my last Narcissus of this year season and the only one :'(
Narcissus poeticus
Narcissus poeticus is not flowering regular in my garden. Would say every second year the blossom is stronger. This year is a total desaster even many leaves have developped but no flowers.
Any recommendations / tricks from the specialists to increase the number of flowers next year? Much more pottassum, water, bulb growth deep ect..?
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