Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: annew on March 08, 2013, 12:06:54 PM
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Here are a few new babies that won't now be going to Loughborough.
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The first one is unusual in flowering so quickly, they were sown in 2010.
The second and third illustrate a feature I like - the 'diamond dusted' effect of the flower sparkling in sunlight.
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Anne, I've given your new babies their own thread.
Such a pity they will not now be seen at Loughborough AGS Show ( show cancelled because of a gas leak)
I think they deserve this platform. :)
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Thanks, Maggi.
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Very nice to see Anne 8)
It's an ill gas leak that blows no good ;)
Is the quick-to-flower one (3349 K7 x K2) a straight cyclamineus x asturiensis cross or something more complex?
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Anne
Sorry not to see them in the flesh maybe next year :(
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Some interesting babies there Anne
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I just love them Anne especially the pots showing such variation - I would be tempted to keep a mixed pot.
Wonderful display of the rewards you get raising from seed.
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Congratulations Anne ! Superb little babies ! ;)
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Very nice, Anne. Candlepower is obviously a good seed parent.
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The fast flowerer is a cross between 2 of Graham Flemings hybrids (Keira nursery).
I was keen to take the mixed pans to demonstrate the big variation you can get from a single pod of seeds, hopefully to encourage growers to have a go.
I'll take some to my local AGS group meeting tomorrow instead.
I should have indicated the scale (where is scale bear when I need her?) the labels you see in the pots are standard 4"(10cm) long and 12mm wide.
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I should have indicated the scale (where is scale bear when I need her?) the labels you see in the pots are standard 4"(10cm) long and 12mm wide.
Don't bears hibernate in the winter? She's probably still tucked up asleep somewhere.......
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She's keeping Barry's bear company..
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Some lovely surprises you must have got when they flowered for the first time Anne. Thanks for sharing. 8)
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One opened its first flower during the AGS meeting yesterday - a little cracker. Pic later.
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Wow! They are all stunningly beautiful, Anne :D :D 8)
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Very nice, Anne. Candlepower is obviously a good seed parent.
This 'Candlepower' does not want to be pollinated :-\
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Roma, I've had many flowers doing that this year - very curious. I guess it might be conditions last summer when the embryo flowers were being formed, though mine are all under glass and should have been the same as usual.
Here are a couple of new dafflets, and a general view of the maternity ward: (I've tried and failed twice to rotate the awkward one, so you'll have to lie on your side to see it)
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rotated I hope. When I saved it to my computer it was the right way up
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Thanks, Mark!
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A very busy maternity ward there, Anne. I bought my Candlepower - a single bulb - at the SRGC Discussion weekend last year. I think it may have been one of yours.
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Mea culpa. Wonder what I did?
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Mea culpa. Wonder what I did?
Might you have traumatised it by allowing it to witness a difficult birth in the maternity ward.......
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Could explain the expression!
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;D
Anne
Congratulations on some beautiful little miniatures. Your crosses were the right sort of crosses to make.
The breeding of our miniatures that were used as parents is much more complicated than N. asturiensis x N. cyclamineus. Such a cross does not normally result in much reflex. What Anne was using is a second or third generation seedling with backcrossing to N. cyclamineus or another hybrid with N. cyclamineus in the parentage.
Second Fiddle is a very good breeder and it is not N. asturiensis that is in its recent parentage but the miniature reverse bicolor Gipsy Queen.
Graham
(from Keira Bulbs)
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Thanks, Graham. I've enjoyed using some of your hybrids as parents.