Narcissus May 2016

[ian mcdonald]

Three narcissus in the garden. I don,t know the names or remember planting them. When I was at school our gardening teacher, Wink Hemstock, encouraged us to buy bulbs and enter the plants in the school competition. I bought some Texas narcissus and afterwards planted them in the garden. Their offspring are still in the garden and flowering. That was more than 50 years ago. img 1010312, 1010313 and 1010314.

[ashley]

Nice reminders every springtime Ian.  I like the second one particularly. 

[Maggi Young]

Just fixed the thread date, folks. Nice narcissus, by the way.

[Cfred72]

There are two weeks I spent in France, Gerardmer. There profusion of Narcissus in the meadows. It's to the point that every two years a large gathering is organized to the "Daffodil Day". This will serve to decorate dozens of chariots will parade in the streets.
The only information on the net is that these are Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Is it done way to have more information?

[fermi de Sousa]

Not quite winter here but we have tazettas and hoops in bloom:
1) Narcissus 'Grande Monarque'
2-4) Narcissus possibly the hybrid hoop 'Nylon'
cheers
fermi

[Roma]

Almost the last Narcissus to flower -  Narcissus poeticus.  The double version is still in bud.

[ian mcdonald]

Roma, there used to be a large group of poeticus in the Arboretum at Kenmore. Alan Mitchell, used to travel around measuring trees and compiled lists of the tallest of each species. He told me that the countries tallest birch was in the arboretum at Kenmore. I could not find it and told him. It appeared that the tree was cut down in a "tidy up" of the site. The arboretum is well worth a visit if it is still there, although it is not well known. The birch stood at 120 ft.

[Roma]

Ian, these narcissi used to be at the base of one of three lovely Betula utilis which my husband persuaded me to cut down as they were getting too big.  The Narcissus are flowering much better now as the birch trees used to make the ground very dry and the flower buds aborted.