Narcissus February 2020

[annew]

It's the height of 'hoop' season here, although the trumpets are racing ahead faster than I'd like.
I have good potfuls of some of our Moon series, since a chipping session has finally come to flowering! I also took some comparison photos so you can see differences between some of the cultivars. The names are with the photos. This batch compare Cyllene, Tellesto, Tethys and Themisto.

[annew]

Here are close-up shots of the flowers of Helene and my favourite, Tethys.  Moon L is as yet unnamed. Almost all have a beautiful scent.

[Gerdk]

A really awesome presentation!

Anne, is it possible to add species (hybrid) names to the cultivars shown?
Another question is: Are the differences in heigth stable characteristics
of the resepective cultivars?

Gerd

[annew]

Hi Gerd, Yes, the heights are characteristic.
The parents are:
Themisto - romieuxii Atlas Gold x romieuxii albidus SF110
Moon L - Cantabricus petunioides x romieuxii Atlas Gold
Helene  - romieuxii albidus SF110 OP
Tethys, Telesto, Cyllene - cantabricus petunioides x romieuxii albidus SF110

[Gerdk]

Thank you Anne!

I repeat - a superb selection - especially the lower ones!

Gerd

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Anne,
   ‘’’Thanks’’’ for the wonderful pictures…. I’ve been trying to resist ‘Hoops’ for a while!!

   Meanwhile I agree with trumpets being somewhat ahead… Attached the first daff in my (Yorkshire) garden this year (Spring Dawn) about three weeks ahead of the last two years, and I thought it was advanced even then!!

Tim DH

[FrazerHenderson]

I've been advised that the RHSDaffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip 2019 Yearbook will be published end of this week/early next week after a very long delay.

[Gerdk]

I've been advised that the RHSDaffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip 2019 Yearbook will be published end of this week/early next week after a very long delay.

This is good news - thank you Frazer!

Gerd

[YT]

Fabulous narcissus collection, Anne

[YT]

Narcissus ‘Don Stead’ Before-and-after
The bulbs from Aberdeen. Thank you, M&I

[Maggi Young]

Fabulous narcissus collection, Anne

I hope we  get to see  how  you  grow  these , Tatsuo - if they do as well as  N. 'Don Stead' you  show  today, they will be  even better than they appear  with Anne! (And that's  saying  something! )

[Yann]

There are incredible things here 
Anne many bulbs in the pot??

[annew]

I think the pot of Tethys has 47 bulbs in it! I would like to see how these grow for Tatsuo.

[YT]

At the moment...
Narcissus ‘Kalyke’ has just started to open its elegant flowers
N. ‘Themisto’ is comming soon
N. ‘Tethys’ seems no flowers this season

[YT]

This narcissus came from 2014 SRGC Seed Exchange labeled as “2802 Narcissus bulbocodium pallidus, ex SBL 237”
I really like this almost flat disk like flowered seedling. It looks a form of N. romieuxii than N. bubocodium var. pallidus for me, though
Thank you to the seed donnor