Narcissus January 2015

[Maggi Young]

Certainly a particularly attractive flower, Tatsuo. 

[Yann]

That's a nice one

[annew]

That is a beauty, Tatsuo.

[Michael J Campbell]

Narcissus smarple

[YT]

Thank you, all. I'll separate this bulb from others in the pot this summer.

I'm lucky to get this flower in a way. But I'm not sure it is "true" N. ‘Hatsuyuki’.
Today, the corona is over 5cm in diameter and flower stem is still 15cm in height.

[Yann]

Narcissus jeanmonodii
Narcissus paucinervis RRW 8418

[Cyril L]

Thank you, all. I'll separate this bulb from others in the pot this summer.

I'm lucky to get this flower in a way. But I'm not sure it is "true" N. ‘Hatsuyuki’.
Today, the corona is over 5cm in diameter and flower stem is still 15cm in height.

Very striking flower Tatsuo.  Do you know what the parents of N. 'Hatsuyuki' are?

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus bulbocodium praecox..

[Maggi Young]

Matt Bishop and Alan Street, both perhaps better known for their interest in galanthus, have "discovered" a new cultivar of Narcissus :
 http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Chance-discovery-new-daffodil-Cornish-garden/story-25847094-detail/story.html

[Corrado & Rina]

Narcissus jeanmonodii
Narcissus paucinervis RRW 8418

Amazing pictures .... now I am quite envious!

Corrado

[annew]

It's a real beauty, Tatsuo. I'm interested in your Japanese ruler! Are Japanese numbers different to the English ones on your ruler?

[YT]

Very striking flower Tatsuo.  Do you know what the parents of N. 'Hatsuyuki' are?

Cyril, unfortunately the nursery withholds the parentage I think it was choiced from the chance seedlings in a greenhouse as Ian's magic sand plunge
I feel some N. cantabricus monophyllus influence from its small number of leaves.

It's a real beauty, Tatsuo. I'm interested in your Japanese ruler! Are Japanese numbers different to the English ones on your ruler?

Anne, the digits on the ruler are the "Arabic" numerals Japanese government had officially adopted the metric system in 1885 and I'll send you a Japanese ruler if you still use the one with imperial units

[Matt T]

A brief sunny spell, so I dashed out to catch some not terribly great snaps.

Narcissus asturiensis - just opened
Narcissus 'Craigton Clanger' - have shown this before, but love the shape of these flowers in side view
Narcissus 'Don Stead' - open a while, so past his best, but still a lovely thing, and nestled beneath him another form of ...
Narcissus hedraeanthus
Narcissus jeanmonodii x N. bulbocodium genuinis (which I think is now N. b. bulbocodium?) - picked these up at the small bulb exchange at the DWE, and I think they came from Anne W? Almost a bicolour, with perianth segments slightly paler than the corona.

[annew]

Anne, the digits on the ruler are the "Arabic" numerals Japanese government had officially adopted the metric system in 1885 and I'll send you a Japanese ruler if you still use the one with imperial units

You have a 130-years-old Japanese ruler??!! 

[annew]

Excuse me, I did not mean the Emperor - this is getting complicated.