Autumn Flowering Narcissus 2014

[Anthony Darby]

The seeds I got from Lawrence are now sprouting. 

[Anthony Darby]

Paid a visit to Bill Dijk. He had two narcissi flowering: cantabricus and a hybrid with viridiflorus in its parentage and grand parentage. It had faded a bit.

[Maggi Young]

Good to hear you've seen Bill, Anthony - we've missed seeing him around these pages.

[Anthony Darby]

Just received some hybrid tazetta seeds from Bill Welch in California. He's well worth contacting. He said in his email: "Do you know anyone in your country or elsewhere who is interested in tazettas and might also be interested in some seeds?--I want to get these distributed now that I have so many and they are so much more fertile than the parent varieties."

[Anthony Darby]

Last year my Narcissus papyraceus flowered long after my N. viridiflorus was past. This year the latter is just above ground and my first papyraceus is looking good with the late afternoon sun behind it. These are show bought bulbs in their third season of flowering.

[Anthony Darby]

Another little gem from the SRGC seed exchange. Narcissus albidus RW8853, sown Feb 2012.

[arillady]

 I contacted Bill Welch yesterday re the tazetta seed that Anthony D mentioned recently and he said that I could put his contact details on this forum as a source of tazetta hybrid seeds.

Bill the Bulb Baron (William R.P. Welch)

website: www.BilltheBulbBaron.com
(click on: Availability List)

William R.P. Welch, 1031 Cayuga Street Apt B, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA (831) 236-8397

[Anthony Darby]

Some of the seeds Bill sent me last month are already germinating. Here is Narcissus viridiflorus flowering today.

[Maggi Young]

Those look good, Anthony - and seem to be keeping quite short and neat.

[Anthony Darby]

Yes, I'm quite pleased with them this year.  The bulbs spent the latter part of spring and all summer in a black mesh "cage" to keep off the bulb flies. This was under the eaves where they get the afternoon sun, so a good baking and no watering. In March they were moved to a north facing position and given some water. I started off with two bulbs from Bill Dijk in April 2011. I've used some pollen on a couple of Narcissus papyraceus flowers.

[Stephen Vella]

Lovely green flowers Anthony..nice group.. I must give it a go..

[Anthony Darby]

I have twelve flowering bulbs. They're just grown in a pot in the garden. 

[annew]

Very impressed with your autumn daffs, Anthony.

[fermi de Sousa]

These could be called winter-flowering daffs, Narcissus 'Fyno'
cheers
fermi

[Geoforce]

Just got around to looking at this thread, glad I did.

Fermi

Those N. elegans hybrids you picture appear to have amazingly thick texture in the cup.  It almost looks like vinyl or leather.  Is this a feature or elegans itself, or am I misinterpreting these photos?

Geo