Narcissus August 2014

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In flower today, one of Graham's (I think) N.cyclamenius hybrids, 'Papa Snoz'
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Narcissus romieuxii grown from AGS Seedex a few years ago,
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[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi Fermi
Yes Papa Snoz is one of ours. It is a diploid and therefore fertile with our diploid miniature seedlings (standards and cyclamineus hybrids). It is good as both a seed and pollen parent. it gives good seedlings - we have some nice 6W-Y's from it. Like Papa Snoz, they tend to have short stems - a desirable quality in miniatures or rock garden size plants.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some more photos. This time the focus is on some of what I term our pot daffodils. Too large to be miniature so they would be classed as dwarf intermediates. Often they have flowers that are more than 50 mm but not much more and they usually come on short and often miniature stems. They are ideal for things like pots and alpine gardens. A lot of our breeding material is lacking in perianth width. However, as you will see we are now producing pot miniatures that are of exhibition form and have the texture and substance and petal width of standard daffodils. It has taken us a while to get to this point. We have acquired some pot miniatures from Glenbrook Bulb Farm in Tasmania to assist our breeding program. They are called Cedrics. The 1Y-Y pot daffodil in the photos below is on a stem that is about 10 cm high on opening.

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Hi
As you can see from the photos our pot daffodils come in quite a variety of colours. They can be bred down to miniature simply by crossing with N. asturiensis variety vasconicus. The Little Beauty x Gipsy Queen is miniature and has amazing petal coverage.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Last post for the evening. Lots of things to do.

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Hi Fermi
Yes Papa Snoz is one of ours. It is a diploid and therefore fertile with our diploid miniature seedlings (standards and cyclamineus hybrids). It is good as both a seed and pollen parent...

Sadly all the pollen was gone when I checked this morning! I've used pollen from "Tatiana" on it (I got this from a friend as "Tatiana x N.cyclamenius" but it's possibly 'Titania' x N.c)
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I was a bit disappointed when seed from 'Smarple' (10W-W) yielded this bright yellow "hoop".
On reflection I realise now that it's the earliest yellow hoop in the garden though not huge it has green petals, so may be useful in breeding
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[annew]

Enjoying your posts, folks!

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Glad you're taking a break from packing and re-planting to enjoy them, Anne (or have you finally got the minions to do that? )
Here's another hybrid I raised - using pollen of 'Mondieu' on a form (not recorded!) of Narc. romieuxii,
cheers
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[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
I am attaching a photo of one of our smaller miniatures that would be ideal for exhibition at alpine garden shows. It is small and grows well in pots. The stem is very dwarf. It is a bicolor so it is unusual.

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[annew]

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