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Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on August 24, 2024, 03:17:49 PM
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It's been a good Daffodil Season here. In the first week:
1) Narcissus 'Snook' & a cream N. bulbocodium hybrid from Keira Bulbs (1st August)
2) Narcissus 'Snook' (2nd Aug)
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fermi
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In the second week:
1) Narcissus tazetta cv (8 W-O) on 9th August
2) Narcissus 'Golden Rain' (4 Y-Y) 9th Aug
3) A couple of white Hoop Petticoat Daffodils (10 WW) on 9th Aug
4) Narcissus hispanicus (12th Aug)
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fermi
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Hi Fermi,
Thank you for sharing the photographs.
If one checks things out on DaffSeek one will find that Snook was bred by Glenbrook Bulb Farm in Tasmania. Keira Bulbs is a retailer in your region? Snook has been in the U.S.A. for many years and is the parent of a number of hybrids both as a seed and pollen parent. Most of the registered hybrids have been around for a while too. Are you growing any of the offspring of Snook?
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Hi Robert,
Yes, 'Snook' is a Glenbrook introduction, but I think I got it from Keira Bulbs along with the cream N. bulbocodium cv.
I haven't grown any of the descendants nor have I grown any seedlings from it - but I live in hope ;D
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fermi
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Coincidentally, Graham Fleming from Keira Bulbs was the speaker at the AGS Vic Group meeting yesterday!
He gave an impressive talk on "Our World of Miniature Daffodils" - acknowledging that groups like the AGS (UK), SRGC and The American Daffodil Society have been the main supporters of miniature daffs at Shows.
A few members brought daffodils bought from Keira Bulbs over the years including an impressive pot of Glenbrook's 'Swagger' shown by member John F. I brought a couple of N. cyclamineus hybrids from KB.
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fermi
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Hi Fermi,
Thank you for the information! 8)
I like the bicolor of Swagger – at least it looks bicolor to me. It must have inherited the characteristic from Gipsy Queen. I’m not sure where this characteristic came from. Breeding is full of surprises.
Our first autumn blooming Narcissus have yet to show above the soil. Something should show with the next month. The earliest Hoops will not be blooming until late December – early January depending on the weather. Many of our new hybrids should start blooming this year. Maybe something good will show up. Fun! :)
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...Breeding is full of surprises.
Many of our new hybrids should start blooming this year. Maybe something good will show up. Fun! :)
Yes, growing from seed is fun - my hybridising is yet to produce anything spectacular but I'll keep dabbling.
Here are some more in flower now:
1) Narcissus tazetta from seed from Seeds of Peace - first flowers
2) Narcissus pachybulbus
3) Narcissus bertolinii
4) Narcissus 'Rapture'
5) Narcissus 'Virivest' 'Viristar'
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi
I agree, especially with Narcissus, in many cases the bar is very high when it comes to creating something better. Here in California, I think in terms of regional improvements, i.e. plants that perform much better here in the Central Valley of California. This can still be a high bar, however it seems more realistic for me. I like my ‘Jetfire’ hybrids and have the next generation of hybrid seed to plant out this autumn. It will be maybe 5 to 10 years before I see any results. Since I have a whole pipeline of new hybrids coming on every year now, the time frame does not seem as long. I kind of forget about the time span and think in terms of what new will be blooming during the coming season. With miniatures it is often an even shorter time span. It all fun and I like breeding Narcissus.
I like the last photograph, number 5. What is the name of this hybrid? Something got mixed up. The Narcissus pictured is not ‘Virivest’. I think that you posted ‘Virivest’ in the past. As I remember I asked you if it is pollen fertile. Did you ever find out?
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I like the last photograph, number 5. What is the name of this hybrid? Something got mixed up. The Narcissus pictured is not ‘Virivest’. I think that you posted ‘Virivest’ in the past. As I remember I asked you if it is pollen fertile. Did you ever find out?
Hi Robert,
You're right, that hybrid is 'Viristar' - another of Lawrence Trevanion's introductions - it fades to white,
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fermi
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1) This is the hybrid jonquil 'Sweetness'.
2) This is what we got from a local supplier as "John Gilpin" which I later found out was the name of the person from whom he got it! I suspect that it's also 'Sweetness'
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fermi
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A couple more:
1) Another jonquil, Narcissus 'Joycelyn Newman', from Keira Bulbs.
2 & 3) Narcissus KB-M-A-21 - a large N. bulbocodium hybrid, also from Keira Bulbs
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fermi
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Narcissus 'Bittern' - a cross between 'Matador' Div 8 and Narcissus cyclamineus, making it a Div 12 - the section for those hybrids that don't fit anywhere else!
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fermi
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Narcissus 'Tête-à-Tête', another Div 12, though mostly these are single headed!
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fermi
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Last few from August:
1) Narcissus 'Trumpocodium' (a Trumpet x N. bulbocodium)
2) Narcissus 'Dodgie'
3) Narcissus 'George Tindale'
4) one of Glenbrook's "Little Breeders" - 'Decoy' x 'Swagger'
5) A posy of daffs picked for a friend's birthday
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fermi
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Narcissus 'Matador'
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fermi
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Some more daffs from early September:
1) 'Jolly Jumbuck'
2) 'Katie Heath'
3) 'Chickadee'
4) 'Stray'
5) 'Jocelyn Newman'
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fermi
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A few tazetta hybrids (Div 8 )
1) Narcissus Fencourt Jewell
2) Narcissus Highfield Beauty
3) Narcissus Silver Chimes
4) Narcissus Halvose
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fermi
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1) Narcissus 'Nomatta' - a seedling of 'Cloth of Gold'
2) Narcissus 'Cloth of Gold'
3) Narcissus 7Y-W KB 2015
4) Narcissus 'Christmas Valley' 4W-P - on the right
5) Narcissus 5WW
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fermi
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fermi,
I don't grow Narcissus; but, yours really kook good.
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Marc is right - they look great! Hard to believe it is already narcissus season on the other side of the world :o
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Thanks, Marc and Maggi,
Narcissus season has peaked and now starting to wane!
A few Div 7s
1) Golden Echo
2) Kinglet (possibly)
3) A mystery jonquilla which turned up in rough grass at the base of a rock wall
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fermi
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This is a daffodil at Tonkins Bulbs last week.
It's from Brian Duncan, a seedling from 'Foundling' but I'm not sure if it was sent here as seed or a bulb,
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fermi
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Narcissus 'Splatter' - pics taken a week apart
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fermi
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Narcissus 'Xit' 3WW- pics over 12 days
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fermi
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Narcissus 'White Marvel' 4WW with one that has reverted to 5WW
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fermi
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I am no daff expert but what wolud the cause of the reversion be?
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I am no daff expert but what would the cause of the reversion be?
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Hi Jeff,
I don't understand the science fully but 'White Marvel' is a sport of 'Tresamble' and I guess it simply reverted to what it had been previously, similar to the way a variegated plant reverts to plain green.
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fermi
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More daff pics at the FCHS Spring Show on the September in the Southern Hemisphere Thread https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19617.new#new (https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19617.new#new)
The Blue Ribbon Winner was a Div 3 called 'Buzzie' raised in Tasmania by David Jackson and grown and exhibited by Sue Thompson
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fermi
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1) Narcissus 'Hillview Triquill' originally from Marcus Harvey
2) Narcissus 'Camp David'
3) Narcissus 'Newstead' raised by Doug Bryce who passed away a few years ago.
4) Narcissus KB Div 5 WW
cheers
fermi