Some new Narcissus hybrids from Anne Wright

[YT]

Wow! They are all stunningly beautiful, Anne

[Roma]

Very nice, Anne. Candlepower is obviously a good seed parent.

This 'Candlepower' does not want to be pollinated

[annew]

Roma, I've had many flowers doing that this year - very curious. I guess it might be conditions last summer when the embryo flowers were being formed, though mine are all under glass and should have been the same as usual.
Here are a couple of new dafflets, and a general view of the maternity ward: (I've tried and failed twice to rotate the awkward one, so you'll have to lie on your side to see it)

[mark smyth]

rotated I hope. When I saved it to my computer it was the right way up

[annew]

Thanks, Mark!

[Roma]

A very busy maternity ward there, Anne.  I bought my Candlepower - a single bulb - at the SRGC Discussion weekend last year.  I think it may have been one of yours.

[annew]

Mea culpa. Wonder what I did?

[Maggi Young]

Mea culpa. Wonder what I did?

Might you have traumatised it by allowing it to witness a difficult birth in the maternity ward.......

[annew]

Could explain the expression!

[Mini-daffs]

 
Anne
Congratulations on some beautiful little miniatures. Your crosses were the right sort of crosses to make.
The breeding of our miniatures that were used as parents is much more complicated than N. asturiensis x N. cyclamineus. Such a cross does not normally result in much reflex. What Anne was using is a second or third generation seedling with backcrossing to N. cyclamineus or another hybrid with N. cyclamineus in the parentage.
Second Fiddle is a very good breeder and it is not N. asturiensis that is in its recent parentage but the miniature reverse bicolor Gipsy Queen.
Graham
(from Keira Bulbs)

[annew]

Thanks, Graham. I've enjoyed using some of your hybrids as parents.