Narcissus March 2008

[annew]

But what is it 

[mark smyth]

Hopefully he will post the info himself

[Maggi Young]

But what is it 

You said it yourself, Anne.... these jonquils are confusing! 
It's easier when you have a few different ones out at the same time. Otherwise you can go round in circles thinking that two separate types are just one because some flowers are immature etc......I'm working on a private method to tell them by perfume...   I'll let you know in a year or ten when I've worked it out......

[annew]

These ones are very smelly.

[Maggi Young]

All jonquils are smelly in our collection! It's the flavour of the smelly I'm working on!

I could have a stab at N. cordubensis.... but I wouldn't put my money on it from a photo 

[Martin Baxendale]

Tsk! All these yellow things that look alike. If only they had...oh, I don't know...some little green markings that would help differentiate them from one another.   

[Anthony Darby]

Tsk! All these yellow things that look alike. If only they had...oh, I don't know...some little green markings that would help differentiate them from one another.  

Sounds like a converstion between a snowdrop and a daffodil: "all you yellow things look alike to me". Reminds me of a quote from Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch when he mixed them up. "Well you white folk all look the same to me".

[Maggi Young]

Ian the BD's response to any yellow flower he doesn't know the name of is.... "nice daffodil" 

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a wee narcissus flowering in my lawn now, and Narcissus graëllsii less than 2" tall.

[mark smyth]

it's very true that all lookalike especially the bulbocodiums

[dominique]

Dominique, I've just seen your beautiful pics of 11th March. How do you get N.calcicola to flower so freely? Is it covered (kept dry) in summer? I've never had so much flower from my own plants.

Gerry,
I have a pot of security in my bulb frame but that pic shows Narcissus calcicola (from around Coimbra) in the rock garden in the middle of stones without any protection, in full sun.

Yes, many Narcissus of jonquilla or bulbocodium groups look alike the same but they don't flower at the same moment, they are not high , yellow of the same manner, leaves are different, stamens too. All jewels for whom want.

[Maggi Young]

Anthony, all your pix today have been too big.... scrolling needed .....

[Gerry Webster]

I have a pot of security in my bulb frame but that pic shows Narcissus calcicola (from around Coimbra) in the rock garden in the middle of stones without any protection, in full sun.

Dominique,
Thanks for the reply. Congratulations! It's a really beautiful clump of my favourite narcissus.

[mark smyth]

You tell 'im Maggi.

Going back to my Narcissus ex Miniature bulbs I can now breath a sigh of relief that my 'Pledge' is correct. In the last couple of days it has changed colour. The photo clearly shows the colour change. If he had said on his web site and catalogue that their was a colour change I would have waited before commenting

'Inca' is also changing colour. Again he should have said there will be a colour change. It's taken two weeks for these two Narcissus to begin to change. 'Inca' before and now below

[mark smyth]

Here are my 'Fairy Gold's looking out over the garden.