Narcissus March 2008

[art600]

Thanks Maggi for the info on Chipper.  Wonder why it is not well known

[Lvandelft]

Thanks Maggi for the info on Chipper.  Wonder why it is not well known

I expect you will be able to acquire it in nearer future, because a Dutch narcissus specialist has
taken it into his collection.

[Michael J Campbell]

Is N. Chipper one of your own crosses?

I got it from MBC and they are offering it this year again, the colour may be a little pale with the  poor light,but not much.   

[David Nicholson]

Here is Narcissus moschatus from the greenhouse today (excuse my hand in pic 2)

[Lesley Cox]

That is lovely David. I was able to get a bulb from Marcus Harvey in Tasmania, last year and after it flowered it set a seed pod so I hope to have several ore quite quickly. I think it's spelled without the r

[David Nicholson]

Of course it is, thanks Lesley, that's my senior moment for tomorrow, I've had all todays!

[Paul T]

Lesley,

You should have several more of them pretty quickly anyway... they multiply for me like weeds, but rarely flower.  I have both pseudonarcissus ssp moschatus and ssp obvillaris (the latter being the Tenby daffodil) but only the former has flowered for me, and then only rarely.  They can produce offsets prolifically though, at least they do for me.  Mine were from seed grown stock, but I have had them for enough years now that it is not just because they're seedlings.  Moschatus has flowered for me a couple of times, while obvillaris never.  Absolutely beautiful flowers on the moschatus.  Great pic David.  I think mine is a slightly more slender form, without as much flaring at the trumpet tip, although I perhaps should go and check my pics before saying that! 

[Gerdk]

Here is Narcissus moschatus from the greenhouse today (excuse my hand in pic 2)

David,
Beautiful flower, isn't it?
But why inside a greenhouse? This species is as hardy as ordinary other trumpets are.
I had a fine group of them but they didn't flower well after they were overgrown by a shrub.

Gerd

[David Nicholson]

Here is Narcissus moschatus from the greenhouse today (excuse my hand in pic 2)

David,
Beautiful flower, isn't it?
But why inside a greenhouse? This species is as hardy as ordinary other trumpets are.
I had a fine group of them but they didn't flower well after they were overgrown by a shrub.

Gerd

Gerd, I only have one bulb and in England we often quote the laws of the great prophet Sod, so Sod's law says that if I planted one bulb in the garden I would surely loose it! When I have a few more I shall plant them out.

[art600]

Here is one of my favourite Narcissus hybrids - triandrus x tenufolius or it could be tenufolius x triandrus.
A good doer

[Maggi Young]

If that is Rannveig and Bob's  N.  'Solveig's Song', Arthur, then the seed parent is
N. bulbocodium var. tenuifolius  and the pollen parent  N. triandrus subsp. pallidulus
 
 

 

[art600]

Maggi

Not 'Solveig's Song' - I obtained from the Mid-Anglia Bulb Sale as tenufolius x triandrus.

Would Ian like a few bulbs?

[Maggi Young]

Arthur, thank you, you are most kind, I am sure he would be delighted to have a bulb or two....always nice to have something new . He has a similar cross he made, and this cross is the one known  as N. x cazorlanus which can occur in the wild....... be interesting to compare characteristics.

[Paul T]

Arthur,

Interesting flower.  Must admit I didn't realise that those two species crossed.  Makes a delightful result doesn't it! 

[Tony Willis]

That is lovely David. I was able to get a bulb from Marcus Harvey in Tasmania, last year and after it flowered it set a seed pod so I hope to have several ore quite quickly. I think it's spelled without the r

I understand that moschatus is a sterile clone and therefore cannot set seed.It has no known wild populations and has not been re-collected.