Narcissus August 2019

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In flower today Narcissus 'Snook' (N. nevadensis x N. cyclamineus)
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Another Narcissus seedling (10YY) with a wide corona
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Narcissus 'Virivest' has now turned from 7GG to 7WW!
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Narcissus 'Taztep' coming into flower
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Narcissus '09/18T' ('First Stanza' x ?) from Lawrence Trevanion.
I've had to pot these up as the red-legged earth mites were decimating the flowers when it was in the ground!
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Narcissus 'Jolly Jumbuck' is "08-06MJ" (7Y0) ['Demmo'x 0-02J] - when I asked Lawrence Trevanion why he hadn't named it he asked for my suggestions. I decided on 'Jolly Jumbuck' because I used to have a yellow Proton Jumbuck!
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Narcissus 'Autumn Jade' from Lawrence Trevanion is 'Taztep' x 'Virivest', it's 8WG becoming 8WW as it matures.
It could be late flowering because of a delay in getting it planted
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Forumists may remember Paul R from Victoria who had some great pics of daffs of his own breeding. He was selling up and leaving Australia to travel the world earlier in the year. I got a couple of pots of his Narcissus hybrids and the first to flower are labelled (Quickstep x Fern) x Virid, which take to mean ('Quickstep' x Narcissus fernandesii) x N. viridiflorus.
I'm not sure how to interpret the second label in the pot "APRI x ADSI"
There are two quite different flowers so far but very strongly influenced by Narcissus viridiflorus
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Paul (vanozzi) posted a pic of the first to flower from this cross in July 2017 - see reply #11 on this link
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15559.msg379949#msg379949
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The first of Paul's seedlings has now faded to almost white. A third one has opened which looks like the one that Paul posted back in 2017,
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[Gerdk]

Fermi,
Fantastic viridiflorus hybrids!
How do you call them? Are they winter or springflowering?
Sorry, sometimes a little bit difficult for us ' on the other side ' to catch
what season you experience.
Gerd

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Hi Gerd,
it's winter here officially - but we are transitioning to spring; some people call this "Sprinter" as it seems to be a combination.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/australias-four-seasons-are-really-six-20140908-10ciyg.html
These might flower earlier if watered a bit earlier and could flower earlier in winter or even in autumn - hopefully I'll have them better acclimatised by next year
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[Gerdk]

Thank you Fermi,
It is always a fun to learn something new - while you experience 'sprinter' we have a
heatwave  currently.

Gerd

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Hi Gerd,
the Northern hemisphere summer sounds like it has been torrid
I'm not looking forward to our summer as it's forecast to be very hot and dry; the fire season is predicted to start early as well 
Narcissus x odorus or "Campernelles" are in bloom
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