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Title: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: ian mcdonald on May 07, 2016, 05:30:46 PM
Three narcissus in the garden. I don,t know the names or remember planting them. When I was at school our gardening teacher, Wink Hemstock, encouraged us to buy bulbs and enter the plants in the school competition. I bought some Texas narcissus and afterwards planted them in the garden. Their offspring are still in the garden and flowering. That was more than 50 years ago. img 1010312, 1010313 and 1010314.
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: ashley on May 07, 2016, 05:40:25 PM
Nice reminders every springtime Ian.  I like the second one particularly. 
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: Maggi Young on May 07, 2016, 07:05:16 PM
Just fixed the thread date, folks. Nice narcissus, by the way.
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: Cfred72 on May 18, 2016, 04:37:11 PM
There are two weeks I spent in France, Gerardmer. There profusion of Narcissus in the meadows. It's to the point that every two years a large gathering is organized to the "Daffodil Day". This will serve to decorate dozens of chariots will parade in the streets.
The only information on the net is that these are Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Is it done way to have more information?
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: fermi de Sousa on May 20, 2016, 01:12:57 PM
Not quite winter here but we have tazettas and hoops in bloom:
1) Narcissus 'Grande Monarque'
2-4) Narcissus possibly the hybrid hoop 'Nylon'
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: Roma on May 24, 2016, 09:34:50 PM
Almost the last Narcissus to flower -  Narcissus poeticus.  The double version is still in bud.
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: ian mcdonald on May 24, 2016, 10:19:16 PM
Roma, there used to be a large group of poeticus in the Arboretum at Kenmore. Alan Mitchell, used to travel around measuring trees and compiled lists of the tallest of each species. He told me that the countries tallest birch was in the arboretum at Kenmore. I could not find it and told him. It appeared that the tree was cut down in a "tidy up" of the site. The arboretum is well worth a visit if it is still there, although it is not well known. The birch stood at 120 ft.
Title: Re: Narcissus May 2016
Post by: Roma on May 24, 2016, 10:32:10 PM
Ian, these narcissi used to be at the base of one of three lovely Betula utilis which my husband persuaded me to cut down as they were getting too big.  The Narcissus are flowering much better now as the birch trees used to make the ground very dry and the flower buds aborted.
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