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Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: Ray on May 03, 2011, 11:46:51 AM
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My N viridiflorus flowering today.bye Ray
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A good one to start the month, Ray. :D
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Narcissus Minicicla
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My N viridiflorus flowering today.bye Ray
A good one to start the month, Ray. :D
Yep. I haven't found anyone growing it in New Zealand yet. How long to flower from seed?
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My N viridiflorus flowering today.bye Ray
A good one to start the month, Ray. :D
Yep. I haven't found anyone growing it in New Zealand yet. How long to flower from seed?
Hi Anthony,can't remember how long it took from seed to flower.
Must be someone in NZ with this.bye Ray
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Anthony see; http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7237.msg200493#new
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As you see Anthony, there are some people growing it, and very well too, by the look of it. My Warkworth friend also has it and has given me some bulbs a few years ago but they haven't flowered. I don't think I have enough summer heat and probably need to ripen the bulbs under glass. You should be OK though.
Yes Bill, it was the Scoliopus. Sorry if it looked as if I'd been cutting its throat. I hoped it would fall apart as the Weldenia does when dormant but it was impossible to break up and I had to resort to my sharpest carving knife.
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Thanks Lesley. I haven't checked that thread recently.
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Thanks Lesley. I haven't checked that thread recently.
Anthony, welcome to New Zealand, Aotearoa, "Land of the Long White Cloud", trust you have settled down by now.
Yes I do grow the lovely Narcissus viridiflorus, but only have one container so far, grown from seed 6-7 years ago.
Perhaps we could organise something in the near future, when they they increase.
BTW, I will be in Auckland tomorrow to visit some growers, purchase slow release fertilisers and other things.
If you drop me a line at daffodil@xnet.co.nz where you live, I would love to drop in and say hello.
A nice cup a tea would be most welcome ;D ;D ;D
Cheers, Bill
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Narcissus poeticus
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It was fantastic to meet Bill Dijk today. He stayed long enough to have two cups of tea. Oh to have two acres and as much energy as Bill must have!
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Two acres here you can have Anthony. Seriously!
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I don't think Vivienne wants to be too far south?
Tomorrow I will take a pic of the paper whites I bought from a garden centre. If I buy bulbs like this I expect them ALL to flower. Only one bulb out of 5 has a flower stalk! Back home I would demand my money back! ::) I have another 10 from "The Warehouse" (where everyone gets a bargain) planted in a pot inside. I'll see how these fare.
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The first of the early miniature Narcissi species, Narcissus cantabricus to flower for us, always welcome in winter, I can't wait and already looking forward in anticipation and contemplating what new miniature seedlings crosses I made will flower when spring arrives.
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Here's my clump of paper whites yesterday. :(
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Between NH & SH we can enjoy narcissi here year-round 8)
Although normally I prefer species, this year I tried making some minicycla types. N. asturiensis x cyclamineus crosses gave quite a few seeds per pod of which few (maybe 5%) were viable, whereas N. cyclamineus x asturiensis crosses (using the same parent clones) gave only a few seeds per pod but more or less all were viable.
Is this asymmetrical outcome usual, and if so, does anyone know why?
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No idea why but I find the same with my cyc x 'Gambas' (which surely comes from asturiensis) has perhaps a dozen per pod and all fertile while the reverse cross gives me lots of rubbishy stuff and only a couple of decent seeds in each.
After thinking the 2 bulbs Betty Clark gave me, of tazetta ssp. patula (or ochroleucus) were not going to flower, I noticed yesterday there are 3 buds so I should be able to show those later this month.
There are quite a lot of 'Nylon'/'Tarleton' types out and seedlings from my (not quite) 'Julia Jane' but what I have as cantabricus ssp cantabricus I'm sure is not. I've had two importations from Tasmania in successive years, each of 6 bulbs, and the whole lot have varied between pale cream and light yellow, not a white among them. I have hopes of Rafa's seed in dur course.
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Interesting that you find something similar Lesley. Looking forward to seeing your others.
Last winter I lost so many bulbs that were in small pots on shallow sand under glass :'(
Survivors not needing summer drought and baking will have to go into the garden, then no more acquisitions until I can sort out heating cables for the benches.
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Just when I thought my narcissus season was over... Bill Dijk posted a lovely N. viridiflorus hybrid in the Sounthern Hemisphere thread: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7237.msg202958#msg202958
and then, via Alpine L I find this photo from Cliff Booker from his hols in the Picos....
Narcissus triandrus : Found growing in a small colony on a steep banking above a very wet grazed meadow in an isolated hamlet in the Picos.
Image captured 24th May 2011.
URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=AlpenPix&id=3146
:o :o :o 8)
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The first flower is out on Betty's N. tazetta ssp. patulus. It is a real honey, just 12cms high and deliciously perfumed. There are 3 flowering stems on the two bulbs and I think there will be maybe 7 flowers when all opened. I'll do another picture in a day or two. I wish the weather was a little warmer. Sunny but bitter winds.