Narcissus March 2015

[annew]

Hopefully next year I will have some available.
N. triandrus is difficult for most growers I think. Not easy to keep for any length of time. Maybe if anyone does succeed with it, they would give us some growing advice.

[Matt T]

Bob & Rannveig Wallis say:

We have always struggled to grow N triandrus and think that they should be grown much cooler than we have done so far. We were given a fine potful of this by Jenny Archibald and it has done well in a part shaded, netting sided polytunnel (i.e. open to all weathers except overhead rain and a tempered wind speed)

[Matt T]

A bit of sun and, importantly, less wind so a chance to snap the latest blooms.

Just opening now is Narcissus nanus, I'm sure this will be a perfect wee trumpet in a day or two...when it will be windy and wet again

Narcissus fernandesii has been looking good and smelling great for a while. The are subtle differences in the scent of this plant and N.jonquilla. I think N.fernandesii has a deeper, more complex scent which is more pleasant to my nose (not that I find N.jonquilla unpleasant). The slightly down-curved tube of N.fernandesii can be seen here, compare with N.jonquilla.

[johnstephen29]

Great plants matt, I wish the wind would leave here and bother someone else.

[David Nicholson]

Having awful trouble with the wind are you John?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

So small and so beautiful.

Narcissus asturiensis

[johnstephen29]

Yes terribly windy around here David 

[YT]

So small and so beautiful.
Narcissus asturiensis

Lovely flowers and nice fotos, Luc

[YT]

Narcissus papyraceus, JJA 702.720

I put its pollen to petunioides I'm keeping my fingers crossed

[annew]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, too.
Luc, delightful pictures of a favourite species.

[Susan Band]

Anne, plant your N.triandrus outside. I grows very happily here in good garden soil.  Even in the field. Although I call mine angels tears I am pretty sure the are straight triandrus

[Maggi Young]

I'll need to put an order in to try that, Susan 

[ruben]

Narcissus cyclamineus

Very nice form YT!

[YT]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, too.

Thank you, Anne

Narcissus cyclamineus
Very nice form YT!

Nice uniform flowers, Ruben! Thanks

[YT]

Narcissus asturiensis, JJA 694.004. Ex. Spain, Leon, La Pola de Gordon.

It's my first asturiensis from seed