Narcissus September 2015

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Here are some more of our daffs as the season really warms up!

Narcissus Trevithian 7YY
Narcissus (maybe) Bezzababe (label missing!)
Narcissus KB-M-23-02 x1
Narcissus KB-M-23-02 x1

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One of Rod's "little breeders", 'Decoy' x 'Swagger' (2 pics)
One of Lawrence's N.fernandesii.ssp cordubensis x N. fern.ssp.cordubensis seedlings
'Taztep'
'Matador'

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[annew]

Delightful!

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Hi
Some photos of some miniatures firstl

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Hi
A few split cups and a good 2Y-O seedling.

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 Hi
A couple of doubles and a few other photos.

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Hi
A couple of photos showing that our large daffodils are now flowering. About 50% are now in flower.

[Lesley Cox]

N atlanticus is super. I haven't come across that name before but love the daff.

[Lesley Cox]

Here are two in the garden today, not long before yet more snow started, and the temperature getting quickly colder and colder as I took these and a few other pictures. When will this horrid winter end?

The first is a seedling of a seedling of N. cyclamineus. For the moment I'm just calling it "Star," until I think of something better. Flowers have from 6 to 9 outer petals. It was the same last year, this the second flowering. I had to lay the camera on the ground as I couldn't get low enough to get under and look up.

The second is a tubby little trumpet, very wide and fat-looking, and also with 9 petals, same as last year. I think it is delightful, so fat but very short (90 mm pot to compare).

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Hi Graham,
I entered a few daffs in the Kyneton Spring Flower Show and won firsts with a couple I got from you
Jocelyn Newman
Narc KB-M-64-91-1-S (triandrus hybrid)
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[Matt T]

Congrats, Fermi!

Lesley, both your seedlings are very nice but I especially like 'Star'. Very elegant. The tubby one looks like it will stand up well to the cold weather you have on the way.

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Hi Fermi
Congratulations. Jocelyn Newman is a very good early show flower. It occasionally has 3 florets but 2 is more often than not.  It has done very well around the world. The other thing about it is that it is fertile. Our triandus hybrids also are relatively early so they have also had great success. The pollen for that cross came from Rod Barwick who brought a lot of NTT to a Canberra Show. The only thing we had out was N. cordubensis as it then was.
Our flowers were also successful at the Claremont Show in Tasmania yesterday. Champion Jonquilla hybrid-we are known for our miniatures but not so much for larger flowers.
Lesley, N. atlanticus is a species from the high Atlas mountains. It is very desirable for hybridising and you will see that Anne Wright has used it a lot. How many petals does the tubby one have - looks to have more than 6.

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Hi
Lots of daffodils flowering now. I will post better photos of our miniature 7W-P and N. atlanticus.

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Hi
Some photos for Lesley.

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Hi
A few more photos. The intermediates are just the right size for pots and garden borders.