Winter Narcissus

[Matt T]

CC looks just great with the sun shining on it.

Lovely to see the range of colours coming from your hybrids. One of the joys of the precocious hoops 

[annew]

Beautiful hybrids, Roma.

[Roma]

Thank you, Matt & Anne.
The original was from SRGC seed sown in January 2001.  I see from the label it was zaianicus lutescens x cantabricus not the other way round.   The offspring were from open pollinated seed so I can claim no responsibility for the result.

[YT]

Nice variations of seedling, Roma

A seedling of (Narcissus bulbocodium var. tenuifolius x romieuxii subsp. albidus var. zaianicus) x self. It's a 6 day-old flower and looks still something greenish.

[ian mcenery]

Tatsuo I wish mine were as compact.

A petunioides type from me thanks Anne

[annew]

Nice! Did I give you that??
Some photos taken today. Weirdly, Treble Chance looks quite different from the photo I took in 2011 which is whiter and wider..

    Narcissus Atlas Gold 14 rule
    Narcissus Atlas Gold 14 close multi
    Narcissus Don Stead rule
    Narcissus Don Stead close
    Narcissus Treble Chance 14 rule

[annew]

In fact Treble Chance looked rather like Ian's one above!
Some hoops from Brian Duncan:

    Narcissus Lemon Flair close
    Narcissus Lemon Flair rule_1
    Narcissus Limey Lass rule
    Narcissus Limey Lass close multi
    Narcissus Lemon Flair left Limey Lass right

[annew]

I have a zaianicus hybrid as well!

    Narcissus zaianicus lutescens x cantabricus rule
    Narcissus zaianicus lutescens x cantabricus close 14

[Matt T]

Your bulb house must be look spectacular right now Anne? Some lovely plants there. Limey Lass looks like a 'good doer'. But tell me, does Don stead always have that slightly squashed look to it?

[Maggi Young]

You got me thinking there, Matt  perhaps it depends on how far open the flowers are.... here are a few shots from Bulb Logs of 'Don Stead'

Narcissus 'Don Stead'

[ian mcenery]

Nice! Did I give you that??

Hi Anne it came from you as Narcissus cantabricus petuniodes it is very nice in the flesh and i can't wait for it to make a potful (I hope). I have wrongly labelled the picture romiexii oops

[Matt T]

You got me thinking there, Matt  perhaps it depends on how far open the flowers are.... here are a few shots from Bulb Logs of 'Don Stead'

Narcissus 'Don Stead'

Thanks for the montage Maggi. The flowers that are more open certainly look less flattened. It has the fluting in the corona too which affects the shape. I guess so many hoops open as perfect round flowers, but I rather like the effect of Don Stead - which means it'll end up on my shopping list   

[annew]

My Don Stead came from Ian (thanks!), so it is the same clone. I hadn't noticed they were squashed, but they are possibly not fully expanded yet.

[Gerry Webster]

Narcissus eugeniae    

Blanchard (following F. Casas)  refers to this as  N. pseudonarcissus subsp. eugeniae           

Kew  regards N. eugeniae  as a synonym  for  N. confusus (a most appropriate name for a narcissus).

A gift from Anne Wright

[Matt T]

The odd spell of sunshine is tempting a shy little N. bulbocodium praecox paucinervis out of her buds!