Narcissus in September 2018

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September is the official start of Spring in Australia and today is Daffodil Day!
In a raised bed in our garden this clump of 'Mitimoto' has slowly increased over the last few years.
It's another of Rod Barwick's "Little Detective" series
cheers
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[Maggi Young]

Official First September Storm in the glasshouse here!  Poor Bulb Despot has already got a sore shoulder from the watering!

[annew]

Hoping to crack on with my daff repotting next week - at last! Monsoon will be a little late in Yorkshire. Quite excited to have a minion volunteer on Monday afternoon and another on Tuesday!

[Maggi Young]

Congratulations, Anne - patience has paid off at last!
 

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Some more from the garden:
1) "Decoy x Swagger" - one of Rod Barwick's "little breeders"
Now two which persist despite competition:
2) Narcissus cordubensis - how this came up through the impenetrable mass of the dwarf jasmine I don't know - it has seeded from a clump a few feet away!
3) A Div 6 which has a label somewhere under the mat of Dymondia! - I think it's one of BArwick's
cheers
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PS Anne, when the minions are finished there you can send them down our way

[bibliofloris]

Hooray for those beautiful little survivors! Happy spring! 
— Kelly

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More daffs are coming into bloom
1) This came from our plant swap as Narcissus 'Charity May' but I'm not convinced!
2) Narcissus 'Bittern' 12 YO
3) one of the bulb beds in full bloom
4) A gift from a friend which she called "Springtime" but it isn't the same as the one on Daffseek! Most likely it's 'Quince', a sibling of 'Tête-à-tête'
cheers
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.... A gift from a friend which she called "Springtime" but it isn't the same as the one on Daffseek! Most likely it's 'Quince', a sibling of 'Tête-à-tête'

We visited our friend Cathy today and I think she has the same daffodil - but she thought it was 'Tête-à-tête'! I think it's 'Quince'
cheers
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1) "Campernelles" - Narcissus x odorus
2) a small Narcissus bulbocodium hybrid
3 & 4) 'Stocken' - a small jonquilla which we got from Glenbrook Bulb Farm in 2009 - according to Daffseek it's a catalogue name for a wild collected unnamed species related to N. wilkommii
cheers
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[annew]

Stocken must like your conditions, Fermi. Over (up) here it generally just produces a lot of leaves. Such pretty flowers too!

[annew]

Hoping to crack on with my daff repotting next week - at last! Monsoon will be a little late in Yorkshire. Quite excited to have a minion volunteer on Monday afternoon and another on Tuesday!

Minions did stirling work - great stuff, chums!

[Maggi Young]

Yay for minions!

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Stocken must like your conditions, Fermi. Over (up) here it generally just produces a lot of leaves. Such pretty flowers too!

Hi Anne,
it must be the climate as I do nothing special for it.
I have a clump of something else which I've never manged to flower - lots of foliage and it multiplies. It was a bulb in a pot labelled "Narcissus cyclamenius" but i'm pretty sure it isn't! I've tried it in various spots but it may want cooler conditions!
cheers
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[annew]

While madly potting all the species today, it's nice to be reminded what is hiding in those tiny bulbs!
N provincialis (not easy - prone to basal rot)
N triandrus (keeping the same bulbs going is a challenge - keep sowing seeds!)
N calcicola ( surprisingly large bulbs)
N jacetanus (exotic frills)
N rupicola marvieri ( calling all workers..)

[annew]

Here's a puzzle. If I sow seeds of some of my N watieri hybrids which are obviously hybrids eg they are yellow, how does what appears to be pure watieri turn up in the F2 and F3 generations?