Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => NARCISSUS => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on May 02, 2012, 07:38:44 PM
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a Aircastle
a Doctor Hugh
a Evesham
a Joyce Spirit
a Joyce Spirit 1
a Moon Shadow
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a Quiet Waters
a Silent Valley
a Unknown
a Sergeant Caye
a Sergeant Caye 1
a York Minster
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Lovely, fine narcissus, Frazer.
Are all growing with you?
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Last one to flower from me
N baby moon (I think)
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That Sargeant Kaye is fantactsic :P
I have my first bloom here-Taffetta, quite a few more buds -I love how the hoops flower so early.
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Lovely, fine narcissus, Frazer.
Are all growing with you?
Armin,
Not all of them, the pictures were taken at a daffodil show - maybe next year I'll achieve the perfection of some of the best growers (some hope!).
Kees,
Sergeants Caye (1YYW-WWY) is exquisite and readily available at just £2 per bulb from www.choicebulbs.com (http://www.choicebulbs.com), a company owned by Frankie Charlton one of the premier showers of daffodils in the UK. He does deliver stock to EU (and accepts Euros in payment) but sadly not as far afield as NZ.
Frazer
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Kees,
Sergeants Caye (1YYW-WWY) is exquisite and readily available at just £2 per bulb from www.choicebulbs.com (http://www.choicebulbs.com), a company owned by Frankie Charlton one of the premier showers of daffodils in the UK. He does deliver stock to EU (and accepts Euros in payment) but sadly not as far afield as NZ.
Frazer
Wouldn't be allowed to import anyway. :'(
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Is a shame indeed.
I guess we make do with what we have and do some crosses to try to emulate what others have done. Its the years of waiting though. This hobby will make me patient or drive me crazy-likely both :P
Cant wait to see mini-daffs hybrids in a couple on months
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I just look at all the imported fruit an veg at Pack 'n' Save and wonder what the problem is! Does it really cost a fortune to import one bulb? I'm thinking of one example that was bred here, but lost and had to make its way back.
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And I'm wondering which fruit or veg it was that carried that damned fruit fly into Auckland? No matter that it is costing the country (taxpayers) millions.
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Spiderlings of Nephila edulis (a giant orb web spider) are blown across the Tasman every year. If the fruit fly could survive here in Auckland, it would be here already! ::)
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They have to make it first in numbers or one pregnant female. I dont think there is any doubt that they could survive in Auckland.
The fact that the traps found one is either very good management or good fortune.
The fact that all you need to do is drop your fruit in the bins before customs is a concern to me.
Lesley I guess the biosecurity costs will be ongoing forever-and it needs to be, last time the painted apple moth and there has been a few times that fire ant colonies have been found near the airport.
I agree that bulbs pose very little threat as exotic pests to NZ, especially hybrids of daffodils but unfortunately the line has to be drawn somewhere :(
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One must assume then that they don't travel far and the Tasman is a barrier? Fruit flies are very fruitful. Consider this: one female fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster the vinegar fly) can, say lay 100 eggs. 50 males and 50 females emerge two weeks later. Each female can lay 100 eggs, so after four weeks you have 5000 fruit flies. Another two weeks and you have 250,000, then 12,500,000 etc. Supposing no limits and no predation. In one year, if you could fit 1000 fruit flies into the space contained by a match box, you would have a ball of fruit flies 90,000,000 miles across. That's from here to the sun! Goodness alone knows who worked this out!
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Anthony (Lesley): Are you talking about Drosophila melanogaster or the med fruit fly Ceratitis capitata? Isn't the latter one the most dreaded pest insect?
Gerd
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I don't know, myself, Gerd. Anthony will know its (I was going to say botanical) scientific name. We are just told on our TV news that it is a male Queensland fruit fly, a real baddie for us apparently. If one were found in the trap, it seems possible that there are thousands more out there. If there were only a single fly, how likely is it that it would have found its way to a trap? Though I believe these are baited with pheromones.
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Fruit flies are very fruitful.
Too true but we mustn't let them get full of fruit. Not ours anyway. ::)
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Thank you Lesley, your fruit fly is Bactrocera tryoni - I don't know whether its dangerousness is the same as the med fruit fly.
Gerd
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Yes they are pheromone baited, I remember putting baits out for certain moth species with DoC probably 20+ years ago.
The queensland fruit fly in question is Bactrocera tryoni, so far no other specimens have been found and given the numbers as Anthony has said could occur this would dictate there should have been a lot more caught. We may have been extremely lucky again this time.
This is the third time that a single fruit fly of this species has been found in NZ without any colonies established, funny enough they have all been in Autumn.
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......which might suggest Auckland really isn't a suitable environment for for a tropical fruit fly? This being said, it is spreading into more temperate parts of Australia, but summers are much hotter than here. Studies suggest they routinely disperse up to 90km as adults, which would suggest they could easily be blown across the Tasman. Adults can live up to a year, so plenty of scope for hitching a lift. It seems that when ever an isolated outbreak occurs it can be successfully eradicated. I'm impressed with the systems in place to detect this insect!
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A little Narcissus (and a tulip) flowering now at my summerhouse. I've forgotten which one.
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How many summerhouses do you have? ;D
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How many summerhouses do you have? ;D
One to many maybe?
Actually I have one at the sea together with my sister and my wife has one in the mountains together with her sister ;) Both are small cabins and not luxurious ;)