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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Heinie on August 26, 2008, 09:56:04 PM

Title: Double Daffodil
Post by: Heinie on August 26, 2008, 09:56:04 PM

Here are some of my Sir Winston Churchill Double Daffodils flowering at the moment

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loevenstein/IMG_2129.jpg)

(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loevenstein/IMG_2131.jpg)

Title: Re: Double Daffodil
Post by: Maggi Young on August 26, 2008, 10:14:44 PM

Those look like they are sweetly scented, Heinie.
Why do you suppose I find it perfectly reasonable that daffodils are grown in Australia and New Zealand, but I find it strange that they are grown in South Africa?  ::) ??? Not a logical thing, is it? :-X

Title: Re: Double Daffodil
Post by: Heinie on August 26, 2008, 10:25:30 PM

Maggie, they are sweetly scented. I cannot resist smelling them many times a day. I received six bulbs from a friend in the UK during December 2007 when they started growing and flowered poorly due to change of hemisphere I assume. They are beautiful now. Daffodils normally do well in South Africa.

Title: Re: Double Daffodil
Post by: Maggi Young on August 26, 2008, 10:30:35 PM

I adore scented flowers of all kinds but scented narcissi are a real treat.. really picks up the spirits.... I quite understand how you keep going to sniff them again and again... irresistible!
 It has not taken long for them to settle to the season change down there, has it?