Narcissus September 2015

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few photos for Lesley. Lesley you will notice that in one of the photos the flower is not only split but missing some perianth segments as well!

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some miniatures, an intermediate and a species.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some standards.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
The last for the night.

[Lesley Cox]

Graham, I love you (and your minis) dearly, but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't split the corona of N. watieri

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Lesley, I have some N. watieri that are most of the way there already and I have been using it for the last couple of years so at some stage there will be little splits with N. watieri as one of the parents.
I have also been working with the naturally split N cordubensis.
It is all a matter of time and some small split cups which we already have as our pollen source.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Lesley some photos from the Daffodil Show in Canberra. Lawrence Trevanion decided not to go to Leongatha and exhibited here in Canberra. He grows some fancy split cups. His Champion Split could almost be classified as a double.
One of our little split cups won Champion Intermediate.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few miniatures for those who are miniature enthusiasts. Some of the latest developments.

[fermi de Sousa]

Graham,
it was disappointing that more visitors from interstate did not make it to Leongatha but A & G Davis scooped the pool for the Championships to make up for that!
Here's the Championship Table,
The Grand Champion x 2
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

How very odd it seems to me that that flower should be the Grand Champion. Cleary I understand nothing about the requisites for a good daff - to me the trumpet is  ridiculously undersized for the full, overlapping corolla 

[Graeme]

these are stunning - thank you for sharing the photos

[Matt T]

How very odd it seems to me that that flower should be the Grand Champion. Cleary I understand nothing about the requisites for a good daff - to me the trumpet is  ridiculously undersized for the full, overlapping corolla

I'm with you on that one, Maggi. It's a bit unbalanced to my eye and not sure what it wants to be - not flared enough to be a small cup and too small to make a pleasingly proportioned trumpet.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Fermi, the main problem was that the Leongatha Show was on at the same time as the Hobart Show and the Canberra Show. The other thing is that two of the big exhibitors are no longer exhibiting.  Tony and Graeme are still growing and exhibiting  standards. I suspect the Canberra and Hobart Shows had a better array of flowers and that would particularly be the case with miniatures.
Maggie, show flowers are grown for a set of rules and for the tastes of judges who work within those rules. It leads to a lot of yellow trumpets that all look much the same. Judges often judge according to what they are familiar with rather than the quality of what is in front of them and this is particularly when seedlings are exhibited. The alpine garden world is quite different to the exhibition world.
Lawrence Trevanion's split cup was the best flower in the show in my opinion and a lot better than the flower that won Grand Champion but I was not the judge. In terms of quality and something special it was miles ahead.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Lesley, it is not often that it can be said that I have managed to breed something that has the name "Lesley's Delight" written all over it. 
Why?? It is a very special flower because it is a cross between your two favourite daffodils - a split cup and a double!!

[arilnut]

"Lesley's Delight"           
Graham, register it and send the first 10 to Lesley to start sales!   

John B