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annew:
All being well, our summer list will be sent to subscribers by email around 6.30 pm on Saturday 16 July. Shortly after, the pdf version will be available on our website homepage at https://www.dryad-home.co.uk

This is our most comprehensive list so far, and includes clearance stock of many of the snowdrops, but many items are in very limited numbers, so you will have to be very quick!

Some items new for 2022 will go onto ebay over the next couple of weeks.
Here is a taster of our new miniature daffodils:

SWIFTLET – our smallest cyclamineus hybrid - creamy lemon and only 5cm high.

MISS POPPY – named for my granddaughter, 12cm high pretty trumpet variety opening lemon yellow and maturing to white.

PEACH TWIST – eye-catching trumpet variety, 12cm high with white spiralling perianth and frilly trumpet that matures to a pale peach.

SWEET PETITE – much admired at alpine shows, flowering at 10-12cm with gently nodding 3cm wide flowers, white perianth and lemon corona, and a delicious scent.

TODDLER – sturdy, chubby little all white daff  flowering at 16cm under glass.

annew:
Some new moons!
PANDIA – one of the latest additions to our Moon series of hoop petticoats. Flowering at 15cm high, the flowers are petunioid in shape with a very flat corona and exserted stamens, rich lemony-cream when first open and becoming paler.

IAPETUS – the other new moon - wide, pleated hoop petticoat which brings to mind Marilyn Monroe’s famous flaring skirt!

annew:

Just a reminder that my summer list of narcissi and galanthus will be sent out to subscribers tonight around 18.30.
Our most comprehensive list ever, it will offer over 60 snowdrops (including our Dryad Golds and Myths and Legends inverse poculiforms), and over 120 different miniature daffodils.
Happy Hunting!

annew:
Many thanks to all our customers for their orders. If anyone is still thinking of ordering, please check the current availability list on our website homepage: https://www.dryad-home.co.uk

While I am preparing the bulbs for packing and ploughing through the paperwork, I will be putting our summer listings on EBAY.
There will be a limited number of varieties available, almost all new introductions for 2022 from our own daffodil and snowdrop breeding programmes.

PLEASE NOTE that we will now only be offering our bulbs dormant in summer, and will no longer be offering snowdrops in growth in spring.

If any customer would like me to hold posting their order until the EBAY listings are finished, please let me know.
The first listings will hopefully go live tomorrow night (Saturday 23rd).

EBAY SALES -  I sell as DRYADZNY.

If you want to follow me as a seller, and be informed when the bulbs are listed, use this link and click on 'FOLLOW"
http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/dryadzny

annew:
Our first listings for the summer are now live on EBAY for 3 days.
The first offerings are presided over by the King of the Gods and attended by dancing girls, a fanfare of trumpets and a swish of hoop petticoats!

The snowdrops are headed up by DRYAD ZEUS, our first new Myths and Legends addition for 2022.
Dryad Zeus has been a nursery favourite since its first flowering, easily spotted amongst all its peers due to its bold streak of deep green running down the centre of the outer segments, leading to it being named after Zeus, the god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology, well-known for sending down bolts of lightning from the heavens. This snowdrop is equally striking!
Flowering at up to 270mm high (under glass, probably shorter outside), the flowers are held on upright pedicels above arching, plicate leaves which are half the height of the pedicels at flowering time. The mark on each outer segment is a parallel sided, rich green longitudinal stripe covering the central one third of the segment, rounded towards the apex, at which there is a white notch, and fading to paler yellowish green just before reaching the base. The stripe usually has a very slight ‘waist’ halfway along, occasionally breaking into a double mark.
We will be offering multi-nosed bulbs, which increase well and will soon become an electrifying feature in your collection!
For comparison, you might like to see photos of Dryad Zeus and Dryad Demeter side by side. Zeus was bred from Wendy’s Gold x South Hayes and is easy to tell apart from Demeter, which is from Trymlet x South Hayes. Note the shapes of the outer segment marks and very different leaf habit.
You may have noticed that Zeus has a yellow as a mother, so it is worth pollinating with another yellow to see what you get!

The dancing girls are represented by DRYAD TERPSICHORE, named for one of the nine Muses of Greek legend, who was also the goddess of dance.
Her snowdrop has long been a favourite here due to the fluid, informal bearing of the flowers, each adopting an individual pose with slightly twisted segments giving the impression of whirling movement, skirts flaring as if they are dancing, even when there is no breeze.
The artistry continues with the outer segment mark which is a painterly ‘splash’ along the lower third of the midline, stopping short of the up-tilted apical sinus, while the inner segments bear an inverted deep green heart. The flowers are sweetly scented.
The plants are neat and compact, with upright, plicate leaves which are short at flowering time, with the large flowers borne on upright stems reaching to 20cm in height.
In the legend, Terpsichore was thought to be the mother of the Sirens, whose haunting song lured sailors to their doom, but the siren-call of this romantic flower can only lead to delight as the flowers appear to swirl and spin in a silent dance.

Our third snowdrop is our first offering of GALANTHUS MELTSAS, one of the superb ESTONIAN BIRDS series of new doubles.
This one is named after the Estonian for Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)
Bred from a G. plicatus from Krasnodar region, Russia (with all-green inner segments) x nivalis ’Flore Pleno’ this is truly well-named for the Green Woodpecker with its green striped and tipped outer segments and heavily green-marked inners. Looking up into the flower the inner segments appear rich green with a clean, narrow white edge. The flowers have been very stable here, always with 3 outer segments and a neat, regular boss of inners. A nursery favourite.

The trumpet accompaniment is provided by our first new miniature daffodil introductions for 2022.

NARCISSUS MISS POPPY 1 W-W
Named after our baby granddaughter and (almost) as adorable. This little trumpet variety opens pale lemon and matures to white, often showing the whole range of colours in the pot.
Only 12 cm high grown under glass (probably shorter outside) the upright stems proudly hold their perfect little daffodil flowers above the foliage. The trumpet is prettily flared at the mouth, and the petals overlap slightly to give a good exhibition form. Early flowering.

NARCISSUS PEACH TWIST 1 W-O
Something a little different! An eye-catching trumpet variety, only 12cm high with white spiralling perianth and frilly trumpet that matures to a pale peach. Often commented on by visitors.

NARCISSUS SWIFTLET 6 Y-Y
Named for the swift babies in our nest boxes getting ready to fly. Swiftlet is a tiny hybrid offered for the first time last summer. Flowering at only 7cm/3” high, the perfectly proportioned little flowers are a glistening pale lemon with a fully reflexed perianth and long, slightly flared corona. The leaves are a rich deep green and display the flowers beautifully. A favourite here at the nursery.

The swish of petticoats comes from our new MOON series daffodils.

NARCISSUS IAPETUS has wide, pleated flowers which bring to mind Marilyn Monroe’s famous flaring skirt! Very early flowering and richly scented, like the other MOONs it is best grown under glass where it can be given a dry, summer rest.

Its sister NARCISSUS PANDIA flowers at 15cm high, the flowers are petunioid in shape with a very flat corona and exserted stamens, rich lemony-cream when first open and becoming paler.

Finally, though not bred here at DRYAD, two aristocrats of the daffodil world:

NARCISSUS CEDRIC MORRIS is the legendary Christmas flowering daffodil, which will indeed give blooms for your Christmas table in favourable years. Much sought after and always in short supply. Good garden plant and will probably do best planted out. 9-10” high, small golden trumpets about 1” across.

NARCISSUS CANTABRICUS PETUNIOIDES is a superlative form of Narcissus cantabricus which originated with Van Tubergen. Carried on a short stem, the corona of the brilliant, ice-white flowers are widely spread, prettily pleated and with a toothed margin. I only ever have very few of this clone to offer. It is best grown under cover.

IMPORTANT – US customers may bid on the narcissus, but not galanthus. I’m sorry, but apart from those, I can only post to England, Scotland and Wales this year due to Brexit complications.

All the bulbs are offered as multinosed ‘clumps-in-waiting’
You can find our listings here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dryadzny/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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