Narcissus December 2015

[Matt T]

Narcissus ‘Craigton Chorister’

Wow. That's much further ahead than here!

Your large flower one is interesting. Is it your own seedling?

Hi Tatsuo. This mesatlanticus originally came from Pottertons.

Cheers,
M

[Maggi Young]

I am very fond of  Narcissus 'Craigton Chorister' -  and it gives great pleasure to see it giving others pleasure too. Thanks, YT!

[YT]

Wow. That's much further ahead than here!

I thought you must see the flowers earlier than me. Growing same clone at different places is very interesting!
You are lucky to get good mesatlanticus, Matt

I am very fond of  Narcissus 'Craigton Chorister' -  and it gives great pleasure to see it giving others pleasure too. Thanks, YT!

Yes indeed, Maggi Sharing plants with friends is sharing joy with them.

[annew]

Your Hatsuyuki is very fine, Tatsuo!

[Rafa]

Narcisus papyraceus blooming after the autumn narcissi in the same land in Cádiz. Then a couple of pictures of the same species blooming in Sevilla near Alcalá de Guadaira. And finally the same species blooming in the garden, quite earlier than in the nature, by the way.

[ashley]

Very beautiful.

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Rafa, I always enjoy your photos of the plants in the wild

[YT]

Thanks for sharing wild narcissus pictures, Rafa.
Those pictures are the best advices to grow them in our gardens or pots.

[Rafa]

another papyraceus absolutely hardy, probably not described dwarft subsp, with very long and prostrated leaves.

Edit by Maggi :   quote from  post by Cyril in Feb. 2016  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14006.msg350732#msg350732   " Rafa grows a similar compact plant from a collection from Tarragona, a port city in northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region, of a residual locality that has definitively disappeared (he thinks due climate change).  It has long and prostrate leaves, not erect like in N. papyraceus subsp. papyraceus, also they are very wide at the beginning and thin at the end. He thinks it is a subsp. of N. papyraceus probably not described yet."    that page  has other  forms shown too.

[Yann]

Very early flowers, at least 3-4 weeks compared to 2014

Narcissus albidus SF110 x bulbocodium praecox Moulay Brahim
Narcissus-albidus 8853

[Gabriela]

another papyraceus absolutely hardy, probably not described dwarft subsp, with very long and prostrated leaves.

Beautiful pictures Rafa! So interesting to see N. papyraceus growing in the wild! Here is much used for indoors flowers (forced bulbs) in the winter.
Delightful, but nothing comparing with the way the look in their natural habitat.

[johnralphcarpenter]

I agree, it is fascinating to see N. papyraceus in nature, and flowering at the same time as outdoor bulbs here in Kent.

Given that my N. pachybolbos turned out to be N. papyraceus, I wonder if N. pachybolbos exists as a separate species, and if so, whether the true species is in cultivation.

Any thougts on this, Rafa, (and other experts)?

[Rafa]

I don't know what is really N. pachybolbus... every time I have a bulb of it or every time I see a picture of It what I see is just a Narcissus papyraceus. Narcissus pachybolbus must have an eliptic or round section in the scape, not "acipitada" like N. papyraceus. This is why in Flora Iberica they have synonymized N. tortifolius as N. pachybolbus, the plant described by Durieu in Orán, Argelia seems to be the same as N. tortifolius.

[annew]

Very early flowers, at least 3-4 weeks compared to 2014

Narcissus albidus SF110 x bulbocodium praecox Moulay Brahim
Narcissus-albidus 8853

Very nice, Yann.

[annew]

Narcisus papyraceus blooming after the autumn narcissi in the same land in Cádiz. Then a couple of pictures of the same species blooming in Sevilla near Alcalá de Guadaira. And finally the same species blooming in the garden, quite earlier than in the nature, by the way.

Beautiful, Rafa. And how did they smell?