Spring flowering Narcissus 2012 - 2013

[Hans A.]

  Two Beauties, Narcissus hedraeanthus and Narcissus cordubensis are in flower actually.

[ArnoldT]

Hans:

Your N. cordubensis looks like one of mine.  The lobing in the corona isn't as deep as other I've seen.

[ian mcenery]

  Two Beauties, Narcissus hedraeanthus and Narcissus cordubensis are in flower actually.

That's a nice form of hedraeanthus Hans

[Maggi Young]

Ian (Y.)  and I are both thinking that your  Narcissus hedraeanthus is a little beauty, Hans. I expect we are all of the same mind !

[Hans A.]

Thanks a lot for your comments Ian and Maggi - I agree completly with you, it is a real gem and I wish I had many, many more of them . It is a form of Cazorla I was given a few years ago from a very generous friend. I knew him many years back (when I was teenager) in the nursery of Bernd Wetzel in Wuppertal and met again in this great forum.

[Maggi Young]

With a history like that the plant is even more special, Hans.
Apart from its beauty what is wonderful to us is that it is growing so happily in your garden - such a thing woud not be possible in our garden....

[Gerry Webster]

Hans - very nice indeed.  I share the opinion of Ian, Ian & Maggi - N. hedraeanthus is especially attractive. I wish mine would flower!

[Maggi Young]

That's a nice form of hedraeanthus Hans

Would you be able to grow this outside in your garden, Ian?

[ian mcenery]

Would you be able to grow this outside in your garden, Ian?

Maggi I can't even grow mine in a pot. But if I had enough I might give it a try

Thanks a lot for your comments Ian and Maggi - I agree completly with you, it is a real gem and I wish I had many, many more of them . It is a form of Cazorla I was given a few years ago from a very generous friend. I knew him many years back (when I was teenager) in the nursery of Bernd Wetzel in Wuppertal and met again in this great forum.

Hans would I be correct in assuming that I have already seen this on the forum recently. It is very distinctive and from the same location

[Hans A.]

Thanks again - for sure it will be much easier to grow it here than in the north.  I suspect because of lack of sunshine it will not be as short as it stays here.

[annew]

It certainly is a very pretty form of hedraeanthus. And I can't get dubius to flower either.

[Gerry Webster]

.......... And I can't get dubius to flower either.

I can't keep it alive. Three attempts.

[Anthony Darby]

I have seedlings, so am hopeful that the climate here will help.

[David Nicholson]

The first of the garden Daffs to flower, Narcissus 'February Gold' about two weeks earlier than last year.

[LucS]

The pure Narcissus cyclamineus in the rockgarden.