Narcissus August 2017

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Hi
Fermi, I thought I would post a few photos of some of our tiny daffodils. As you will see small is a relative concept.
Occasionally we overdo the short stem and the flower opens at ground level.
One of the problems with such small flowers is that the only way to know if they have a defect is to take a photo of it and blow it up on the computer.
Our MMM's are so small that someone with bad eyesight would probably not be able to see them. This presents a difficulty if the person is the show judge!!
I like Lawrence's viridiflorus seedlings and must get some off him at some stage. How do they hold up in the frost?

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Hi
We have had an usually large number of very tiny seedlings flower this year. As you can see from the attached photos one of the ferals is a tiny miniature 1W-Y seedling. The seedling with the edge of the trumpet yellow is also quite unusual.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Graham,
there are some real beauties there! I especially like the 1W-WWY
Here are a few from you which are in flower now in the garden:
KB-M-6WP-2-15 (6YY so not quite as named!)
'Snook' clumping up nicely
KB-M-31-2000 x 1 (6YY);
KB-M-2YO-1-17 x 2 (a jonquilla type?)
cheers
fermi

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HiFermi, there is a lot of  difference between a 6W-P and a 6Y-Y so expect some extras with next order. A lot of 2Y-O are jonquilla hybrids. It is nice to get two heads but usually it is only one. As you have too many heads I will give you a single headed one as well.

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...A lot of 2Y-O are jonquilla hybrids. It is nice to get two heads but usually it is only one...

I think it is one of the sturdiest little jonquills I've grown, Graham, so I'm not disappointed in it.
Here are some pics of some daffs I got from Glenbrook:
Narcissus tazetta bertolinii;
Narcissus hispanicus
and a comparision between it and N. jacetanus

[Yann]

bertolinii never heard of it

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bertolinii never heard of it

Hi Yann,
apparently it's sometimes listed as ssp aureus:
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/NarcissusSpeciesOne
cheers
fermi

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Hi
The narcissus gods have smiled on us. While I don't remember having used our N. asturiensis var. vasconicus as a seed parent where the pollen was from something else at some stage something white has to pollinated at least one of our N. asturiensis var. vasconicus because two of the flowers in our pot look like being very miniature whites with all the best attributes of N. asturiensis var. vasconicus. The two white seedlings are slightly taller.

[Yann]

thanks Graham and Fermi for informations.

[annew]

Very cute, Graham.

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Hi
The weather has limited hybridising activities as it has been very windy, wet and cold.
Here are some photos of the daffodils flowering in our gardens.

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