Dryad Nursery news 2024

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Our EBAY listings finishing tonight include the first to be offered of our stunning new yellow ipoc, DRYAD APOLLO. It has taken me many years work to get to this stage, and I’m excited that it will finally be added to a lucky bidder’s collection.

The second newcomer in the snowdrops is out true inverse poculiform DRYAD REMUS, with its six equal segments each with a bright green vertical stripe.

Completing the snowdrop trio is the second bulb of DRYAD MINUET, our compact little green with the perky attitude.

Our daffodils include no less than three newly registered miniatures:

FOLLETTA with her pixie-cap perianth and green reverse
IVORY BELLE with its widely-flaring fluted corona, perfect for alpine exhibitors
and MAGGI YOUNG, a personal favourite (the bulb and the lady) with its classic poise, frilled trumpet and gently reflexed perianth.

To keep these company is a rarely offered cyclamineus hybrid from Brian Duncan. His ÉPONINE has a swept-back white perianth and subtly shaded, long primrose corona.
Two of our visitor favourites complete the ensemble.
Our award-winning PEACH TWIST has a symmetrically twisted white perianth surrounding its peachy corona.
SWIFTLET is our tiniest cyclamineus hybrid only 7 cm high with palest lemon glistening flowers in perfect proportion. A real talking point on the show bench.

As usual, you can find the listings here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dryadzny/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
GOOD LUCK!

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Starting tonight on EBAY:
We are delighted to introduce the first seedling to be registered from our breeding programme for the green ovary/ yellow mark characteristic. DRYAD SUNRISE was named for the inner segment mark, deep and dark over the sinus, becoming glowing yellow above.
Flowering at 15 cm high under glass, DRYAD SUNRISE has large shapely flowers held on a long pedicel which hangs free of the curved spathe, allowing the flowers to swing with the breeze. The leaves are neat and narrow, semi-upright and short at flowering time, presenting the flowers well.
The tip of the pedicel is yellow where it joins the pea-green ovary. The long outer segments are cupped, ridged and of heavy substance, with a long claw that reveals the markings on the inners. These are washed pale yellow apart from the crisp white margin. At the apex, there is an inverted V, deep olive over the narrow sinus, grading into glowing golden yellow, shading gently towards the base where there are two more diffuse yellow patches. The underside of the inner segments is strong yellow, which adds to the overall glow when lit from behind. The golden colour deepens as the flowers mature.
Bred from South Hayes x Blonde Inge, it is worth noting that it carries genes for both ipoc and yellow characteristics, so may produce some surprising seedlings!
Our second bulb of our new true inverse poculiform, DRYAD REMUS, shares tonight’s snowdrop billing.

For our daffodils, six of our best are assembled for you tonight. Four of the new introductions for this year make their second showing:
Perfumed ALBIA with her unique ancestry and lemon reflexed flowers with the signature white-rimmed corona.
Elegant, snowy white IAN YOUNG with its fluted, nodding bells.
Cheeky golden yellow DUCKLING and
Sparkling STARINA with her signature six-lobed corona.
They are supported by two of our best exhibition miniatures, LITTLE GOLDHEART with the lining of golden yellow to its creamy cup, and serene MICA, a rare white division 2 with excellent show form.


As usual, you can find the listings here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dryadzny/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
GOOD LUCK!