Narcissus September 2015

[Lesley Cox]

I see what you mean Maggi about the putative LD, almost could be thought to have a little double trillium in there somewhere. (I wouldn't put it past Graham's trying for that!) As for giving it that name, you'd have my full permission to mis-spell as Leslie or maybe as something else altogether.

All the minis in Reply 37 are very cute.

[Lesley Cox]

All the recent name changing among daffs is very frustrating for us in NZ as previously we cold import just about any but now, the new names are not recognized by MPI (MAF)

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some more photos. Warning this post contains splits.

[Anthony Darby]

All the recent name changing among daffs is very frustrating for us in NZ as previously we cold import just about any but now, the new names are not recognized by MPI (MAF)

... unless you can prove they have had a different name in a previous life. Like it or lump it, as they say.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
We are now into late season for us. It is the time of triandus, fertile jonquilla hybrids and poeticus. One of our friends from Bowral gave us a marvellous miniature poeticus hybrid to assist our hybridising of coloured miniatures. It has NZ poeticus in its parentage.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
I have noticed that we have our first feral NTT flowering. We have a lot of feral triandus hybrids on our property as we have been breeding them for a while.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Lesley, this is a post about split cups. It has a couple of nice split cups and what happens when they don't work out.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some odds and ends. We have some excellent intermediate doubles flowering at the moment.

[Rogan]

I really am with Lesley on this one! In my eyes a daffodil MUST have a cup and six tepals - and it mustn't be green! Here's one that IS green AND it's got a split cup AND it's growing in my collection AND I love it - proves how wrong you can be! 

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
I am not sure that even N. viridiflorus will convince Lesley of the error of her ways in relation to split cups.
As you can see it is jonquilla hybrid time here.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
More jonquilla hybrids.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few photos of our main daffodil beds.

[Mini-daffs]

  Hi
And another couple of photos.

[Rogan]

Wow! I've never seen the likes before! What a lot of weeding! I think I've got six pots of Daffs in total...

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Rogan, the one thing we are short of is volunteers to weed. We were way behind this year because it rained at the wrong time and it then got very cold. The other thing is that the photos are of our main daffodil beds so there are quite a few more daffodils plus what is in the shade house.
We are now into very late season. Lots of triandus, jonquilla hybrids, tazetta hybrids, triandus hybrids and a few other such as poeticus still flowering.