Narcissus - Spring 2018 (from February onwards)

[Roma]

Did any of you see the dress Emily Blunt was wearing on the Graham Norton Show last night?  I wish I had a bigger telly.  It had a black background and was covered in prints of large daffodil cultivars.  It was so frustrating.  When she was speaking the camera concentrated on her face and when someone else was speaking it moved over her too fast to get a proper look at the daffs.  There was a photo in today's local paper but it's too small to get any detail.
 

[Maggi Young]

Is this the dress, Roma?

[Roma]

Yes.  Fantastic isn't it.

[Gerdk]

This is one of the daintiest and reliably flowering 'bulbocodiums' of my collection - with a slight 'obesus look' but smaller than this species
- received from Rafa in 2011

Gerd

[annew]

I like that dress. I must have one for gardening in 
It was so cold and wet today, I decided to spend it taking photos so I could stay indoors!
A VERY tiny N. bulbocodium var ectandrus


Narcissus x rupidulus Little Jen, chosen and named by my daughter.

[annew]

Narcissus Panna Cotta group (rupicola x watieri)

Narcissus Crème Frâiche group (watieri x rupicola)

Narcissus x cazorlanus

[annew]

My first and favourite species, N. rupicola


Narcissus triandrus loiseleurii at last, seeds from Rafa, thank you!

[Gerdk]

This is an exceptionally free flowering form of Narcissus gaditanus

Gerd

[Philip Walker]

N. rupicola

[Harald-Alex.]

In the open ground flowers after strong winter at first N. bulbocoides Spoilrot, then the Yellow N. bulbocoide and N. odoratus. All the species survived nighttemperatures in march till -18°C without snow.
Other great common Narcissus varieties, as Carlton or Icefollies had serios leave damages!
foto 1: Narcissus bulbocodium Spoirot, white-creme
foto 2: Narcissus bulbocodium Great Selection JSP, deep-yellow
foto 3: Narcissus odoratus, yellow

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Harald-Alex,
lovely to see an Australian raised daffodil doing well overseas, but there's no "L" in 'Spoirot'! See https://daffseek.org/detail-page/?cultivar=Spoirot&auto=1
It was raised by Rod Barwick of Glenbrook Bulb Farm in Tasmania by crossing Narcissus bulbocodium ssp bulbocodium var conspicuus and N cantabricus ssp cantabricus foliosus and registered in 1998. It was one of his "Little Detectives" series, which includes 'Smarple' (MisS MARPLE) and 'Kholmes' (SherlocK HOLMES) and Sporoit (HerculeS POROIT) - though of course, the name is actually Hercule with no "S" at the end!
cheers
fermi

[Harald-Alex.]

Hi Harald-Alex,
lovely to see an Australian raised daffodil doing well overseas, but there's no "L" in 'Spoirot'! See https://daffseek.org/detail-page/?cultivar=Spoirot&auto=1
It was raised by Rod Barwick of Glenbrook Bulb Farm in Tasmania by crossing Narcissus bulbocodium ssp bulbocodium var conspicuus and N cantabricus ssp cantabricus foliosus and registered in 1998. It was one of his "Little Detectives" series, which includes 'Smarple' (MisS MARPLE) and 'Kholmes' (SherlocK HOLMES) and Sporoit (HerculeS POROIT) - though of course, the name is actually Hercule with no "S" at the end!
cheers
fermi

Hallo Fermi de Sousa, Thank You very much for Your interest comment to my foto of N. bulb. Spoirot. I didn`t know, that this fine creme-white variety was born in Australia-Tasmania and think, it is wonderful to grow this narcissus here in Germany. They had a long way from Tasmania via Netherlands (I got thes from Verberghe bloembollen) into my garden. I planted thes in nov. 2017 in open ground covered with 3 cm mulch. We had in begin march hard frosty weather till -18°C and the narcissus survived this well. They first of all wild narcissus started flowering in end of march with fine creme-white flowers. The next variety was N. odorus and then the deelyellow N. bulbocodium selectie JSP from Verberghe. Now I wait for N romieuxii Julia Jane at last!
After the snowdrops this wild narcissus are fine colourful plants and now I am interested to look for the other varieties of the"Little Detectives"!
By the way, I have as hobby an orginal Black Cab Austin here in Germany and transported in summer 2016 for the Open-Air Concert "A British Summernight" in Wittenberge the detectives Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from the backstages to the stage!
Greetings from Germany Harald Alex

[annew]

That is a great story, Harald-Alex! And interesting that your bulbs have survived such temperatures.

[annew]

This is an exceptionally free flowering form of Narcissus gaditanus

Gerd

That is a LOT of flowers - well done!

[Gerdk]

Thank you Anne!
It is a good flowering clone + some artificial heating during their rest is beneficial!

Gerd