Narcissus September - December 2009

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos of some of our seedlings. I quite like the small disk flower. It is just a bit bigger than miniature and its stems are quite small so it would be very suitable for pot culture or the alpine garden bed for that matter.
I have been doing a lot of hybridising over the last 3 days.

[Gerry Webster]

Hi
Lesley a few more photos for you!! Nature can be far from perfect. I can't say the three quarters bulbocodium is something to impress. The split cup NTT is one of natures aberrations but it could be used to produce split cup miniature triandus.

I can't wait.

[Anthony Darby]

Here is my first of the season: Narcissus serotinus from Turkey (ex PC).

[BULBISSIME]

Lovely flower !!
I'm waiting for some since several years, may be this year....

[fermi de Sousa]

Graham,
some stunners in that lot! When will we see your catalogue
Still some daffs out here;
"Jack Snipe" - yes, I know it's not as  good as "Snipe" but it is a cutie anyway!


"Hillview triquill"


"White Owl"


"Segovia"


The double Poet again, and the second pic showing the "double header"


"Fairy Chimes"


cheers
fermi

[arillady]

Fermi all of the little ones you just posted are all lovely.

[David Nicholson]

very nice indeed AD.

[Ragged Robin]

Fairy Chimes is really cute, Fermi....you do have some wonderful Narcissus    White Owl is lovely too but I'm thinking miniature now 

[Gerry Webster]

Here is my first of the season: Narcissus serotinus from Turkey (ex PC).

Very handsome Anthony. How do you treat this during summer dormancy?

[Anthony Darby]

Here is my first of the season: Narcissus serotinus from Turkey (ex PC).

Very handsome Anthony. How do you treat this during summer dormancy?

Totally dry in the original pot and in full sun. Replanted in July/August and watered on 1^st Sept. I have the first leaves of my non-flowering viridiflorus appearing (I hope some will flower), but my pots of humilis look as if they are going to look like grass again! I'm really pleased they are all early this year, so maybe I'll get a chance grow some flowering bulbs for next year?

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks Anthony. I have wanted to grow N. serotinus for years but have been put off by its reputation as difficult/impossible to flower. I'll try it next year.

[Lesley Cox]

Hi
Lesley a few more photos for you!! Nature can be far from perfect. I can't say the three quarters bulbocodium is something to impress. The split cup NTT is one of natures aberrations but it could be used to produce split cup miniature triandus.

I can't wait.

I can, easily, and the longer the better.

[Lesley Cox]

I wonder if the white that Kees was wanting a name for a while back, could be 'Dainty Miss.' I saw a nice pot of her at the NZAGS show on Sunday.

[Kees Green]

Hi Graham, those miniature white pinks are fantastic.
I will keep an eye out for your list  and then dream about purchasing one.
I got the miniature Poet from Bill Dijk-Daffodil Acre. I have another about to flower and will take a pic of it when it does, they really are beautiful.
I have triandus hybrids and can not find the stigma anywhere, would this just mean that they are infertile or am I completely missing something, triandus alba has flowered Lesley, thanks-will pollinate it with cantabricus pollen that I have stored and hope to get that lovely hybrid.

[vanozzi]

Graham, thanks for giving an insight into your breeding methods. Really like your  6 floreted white min. triandrus hybrid.Only thing I can't view it so well--it's 421.64 KB. Is it also fertile? I'm not doing so much hybridizing now, but definitely will look out for Brooke Ager, the cup is certainly intense.

This  is one of my best seedling Div 2 W-P. It's a standard though, not intermediate.Haven't checked the RHS colour chart yet, but it does have excellent colour.
Could you forward your catalogue, when it's available, to my email address please? I would be interested in some of the fertile miniatures, rather than the show cultivars.
Ta