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Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: Rob-Rah on January 09, 2020, 11:54:45 AM

Title: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Rob-Rah on January 09, 2020, 11:54:45 AM
My N. romieuxii is in more or less full flower at the moment. This seems to appreciate a very hard summer dormancy.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: YT on January 09, 2020, 04:11:10 PM
A nice potful hoop petticoats, Rob :)
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: YT on January 09, 2020, 04:13:10 PM
Narcissus romieuxii ‘Mrs. McGee’
I love its very smooth rim of the corona 8)
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Yann on January 11, 2020, 05:37:54 PM
Finally it's a bit late compared to 2019, the first daffodils are blooming.

Narcissus romieuxii ssp. albidus (Emb. & Maire) A. Fern
Serious study among bulbocodium group is needed, Michaek Salmon consider it as cantabricus ssp eualbidus...
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Stefan B. on January 11, 2020, 05:41:20 PM
Narcissus cyclamineus
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: ArnoldT on January 11, 2020, 08:48:00 PM
Narcissus romieuxii
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Jan Jeddeloh on January 12, 2020, 03:36:11 AM
Narcissus asturensis

Cutest little daffodil ever.  Grown from 2016 seed from one of the big three seed exchanges.  I saw it blooming in Portugal on a Greentours trip.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Yann on January 12, 2020, 11:09:46 AM
that's a fast grower, only 4 years  :o
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Jan Jeddeloh on January 13, 2020, 01:57:41 AM
Ok same narcissus but I couldn't resist showing the picture I posted of it with my hand knitted gnome. This was staged for a knitting website.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: annew on January 14, 2020, 07:12:41 PM
The daffs are just the right size too!
An early bloomer here - Narcissus Shiraume, a gift from a generous friend  :-*
It is a very distinctive flower shape, which I hope to pass to some seedlings, but what surprised me when I took the pot to a meeting last week, and had it in the car, is the very powerful scent, which is reminiscent of Narcissus jonquilla.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Stefan B. on January 14, 2020, 08:03:07 PM
Lovely daffodil, annew!
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: YT on January 17, 2020, 03:09:04 AM
The daffs are just the right size too!
An early bloomer here - Narcissus Shiraume, a gift from a generous friend  :-*
It is a very distinctive flower shape, which I hope to pass to some seedlings, but what surprised me when I took the pot to a meeting last week, and had it in the car, is the very powerful scent, which is reminiscent of Narcissus jonquilla.

A brilliant potful, Anne :D Mine is just pushing its buds through the soil surface.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: annew on January 17, 2020, 10:44:19 AM
Yours will probably be a perfect cushion plant !
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on January 17, 2020, 11:17:27 AM
With such a  very neat  shape  to the  flowers  it  is  really  good  to learn that Narcissus Shiraume also has  a delightful scent - what a  great  plant! 
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Gerdk on January 18, 2020, 01:35:37 PM
Does someone know when the latest RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop & Tulip yearbook will be out?

Gerd
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on January 18, 2020, 02:24:03 PM
Does someone know when the latest RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop & Tulip yearbook will be out?

Gerd
  Publication in the  autumn was  delayed, I  understand  - The latest information on the availability of the delayed RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop & Tulip 2019 yearbook is that it is due to be published later in January.

 I suggest  you contact   Mr J Gibson, 14 Waverley Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN15 6NT
or  email
 gibbo.john@ntlworld for details. He  should  be  able to help.

Email enquiries regarding the limited availability of back copies also welcome.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: annew on January 18, 2020, 06:02:37 PM
I understand around 2-3 weeks.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Gerdk on January 19, 2020, 12:07:11 PM
Thank you for this Information - I'll send an email to John"!

Gerd
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Gerdk on January 20, 2020, 05:28:11 PM
today according a message from John Gibson:

publication  later in January

Gerd
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Yann on January 25, 2020, 03:55:49 PM
Despite the dark clouds Narcissus are at their best this year, Narcissus albidus SF110 freshly repoted.
Narcissus romieuxii, a very hardy species. Leaving pot outside year round.
Narcissus jacquemoudii (aka Narcissus romieuxii subsp. jacquemoudii)
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: annew on January 26, 2020, 05:11:41 PM
Amazed you can grow these outside, Yann. Even if it were warm enough, they would be battered or eaten here!
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Yann on January 26, 2020, 05:55:58 PM
Anne the pots are kept along my greenhouse, protected from direct rains and wind. Slugs don't touch my daffodils...but they destroy my crocus, a hell this winter.
It's not cold enough and slugs are still very active all around the garden. Slugs are my N°1 enemy for several years and i didn't find a method to slow them down. The 3 hedgehogs hosted along my greenhouses are not enough to eat all of them >:(
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Gerdk on January 28, 2020, 02:02:12 PM
Here are two daffodils which were grown in an alpine house although I kept N. hedraeanthus  outside
when temperatures are above zero.
The other one (not sure if it is properly determined) developed an interesting rim

Gerd

Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: annew on January 30, 2020, 09:40:18 AM
A VERY interesting rim - so pretty.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Gerdk on January 30, 2020, 11:32:49 AM
Thank you Anne! It looks quite similar to your Shiraume - I 'll ask my wife for the scent.

Gerd
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: ian mcdonald on January 31, 2020, 07:43:53 PM
I saw a daffodil in flower outside someones house yesterday. Global warming? It looked too old to be February gold.
Title: Re: Narcissus January 2020
Post by: Yann on January 31, 2020, 08:59:00 PM
I saw a daffodil in flower outside someones house yesterday. Global warming? It looked too old to be February gold.

Indeed for the last 6 years i'm able to grow many mediterranean species outside without protection.
spanish and morrocan Narcissus can withstand very cold temperatures, several weeks without any problem.

If planted deep they don't fear the wetness when heavy rains produce water ponds.

+/- 60% of my collection is now in the garden, sometimes in heavy clay without any grit, no loss until now which is not the case in the greenhouse.
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