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NARCISSUS / Re: NARCISSUS 2025

« Last post by Robert on October 15, 2025, 05:17:46 PM »

Hi Anne,

You certainly have created many fine new Narcissus hybrids. I also run across your hybrids on DaffSeek (daffseek.org). Thank you for sharing your photographs.

Below is a photograph of Narcissus elegans blooming in a container at our Sacramento, California home. It is a nice plant with a very good spicy-sweet fragrance. I am not sure about the correct name of this plant, as it does not quite fit the description for Narcissus elegans or N. serotinus. The foliage is definitely elegans-like. Currently, I have only one blooming plant. I tried to self it last year and got no seed. I selfed it again yesterday and placed it in the cold frame. I hope it is not an obligate outbreeder.

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Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025

« Last post by Robert on October 15, 2025, 05:16:14 PM »

Hi Ian,

Thank you so very much for your latest Bulb Log.

I too want to get our Sternbergia out into the open garden. With our climatic conditions I think that we have a good chance at success. Pictured below are a few from our cinderblock garden.





In California, commercial strawberries taste terrible. I have been attempting to breed good tasting day-neutral strawberries. ‘Sequoia’ is a good tasting, old day-neutral strawberry and I have been using this variety in many of my new hybrids. Pictured below are a few hybrids that I have not planted out yet. The results so far are okay, but I have not been “wowed” by the flavor of any of the new hybrids to date.

Alpine Strawberry seed is available here in the U.S.A. Maybe I will try growing some this year. They do taste great, however I am not sure they will like our hot summers. They definitely do not hybridize with commercial type strawberries. This has been attempted many times in the past. Maybe I can get some of the Alpine Strawberry to survive our summer heat and breed for heat tolerance. I already have many projects going. Maybe it is better that I do not add another project.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering

« Last post by Hans J on October 15, 2025, 11:33:29 AM »

Ahhh ....good to know !

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering

« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 11:15:36 AM »

https://www.asclepiad-international.org/morpho.html

Maybe I was wrong???

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering

« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 11:02:36 AM »

No problem - no reason not to try - good luck.

I was astonished that I could find so very, very little detail online, not even a labelled section through a flower.

I am unsure what specialist societies still exist outside of general cactus and succulents societies, but there must be one, with a forum, somewhere that has detailed Asclep' knowledge within its members. (I have not double-checked, but I believe that the IAS has been defunct quite a while??)

I did find it very easy to remove pollinia from flowers though - when they are complete they are sort of wishbone-shaped - if that translates.

Maybe it's worth joining a C&S forum to try to get more detailed information? Maybe BCSS - as here, you do not need to be a member although I have found it "unhelpful" previously...... Maybe the PBS, or CSSA?

Good luck

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Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025

« Last post by Ian Y on October 15, 2025, 10:57:58 AM »

Find out what windows and paths are for in a garden in this months Bulb Log.
 There are also plenty autumn flowering Crocus and other flowering bulbs to see if you click on the link.

https://srgc.net/documents/bulb%20logs/251015104210BULB%20LOG%201025.pdf

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Matelea cyclophylla is flowering

« Last post by Hans J on October 15, 2025, 10:52:02 AM »

many thanks Vinny !
This helps me abit to understand the flower structure ....
I have to try !!!

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Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum / Re: Monthly Bulb Log Diary 2025

« Last post by Ian Y on October 15, 2025, 10:48:11 AM »

Dear Fermi, Robert, Jasmine, Susan and Anne,

Thank you so much for your loyal support and having stuck with me through all 23 years it means so much to me.

I intend to continue making the videos so you can stay in touch with the garden that way plus if I do decide to write then Bulb Log updates will appear in the IRG as appropriate.

Best wishes to you all.
Ian

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General Forum / Re: Pacific Bulb Society

« Last post by grenadier on October 15, 2025, 09:41:09 AM »

Thanks for confirming that Vinny 123

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General Forum / Re: Pacific Bulb Society

« Last post by Vinny 123 on October 15, 2025, 07:43:56 AM »

For the past 12-18 hours, yes.