Narcissus April 2021

[Armin]

I start the month of April...



The wild daffodils were planted autuum 2017. The blossom is increasing year over year. The gras between the flowers are all seedlings

A nice cultivar is Monal. It suffered a bit in front of the concrete wall on last weeks heat wave of 25°C. Today we had snow fall at -1°C...what a contrast.

[Philip Walker]

Some from March too
N. 'Spoirot'
N. jonquilla henriquesii-x2
N. bulbocodium-possibly 'Golden Bells'
N. rupicola

[Guff]

Years ago, I did crosses of different daffodils. Today this bloomed.
I don't know enough about them to know if this is something unique or different?

[ashley]

N. bulbocodium graelsii forma lutea   Cadalso de los Vidrios, Madrid, RDD coll.
N. triandrus triandrus var. loiseleurii (x2) Galicia, RDD coll.
N. papyraceus 'Ziva'

[Palustris]

The flower on this is no more than 1 cm across. So the question is, is this just a  hungry plant or is there a form as tiny as this? And if so what is it?

[Nik]

Volunteer in our front yard from the beginning of April, hence posted here.
Do you think it looks interesting enough to keep?

[Guff]

Patch of Daffodils Spring 2021, grown from seed. I should have kept collecting seeds over the years,  would have thousands now.

I was going to dig them up and plant between my hedge of Tree Peonies, but didn't have time this year.

[Jeffnz]

Do your daffs need to be hand pollinated to set seed?

[Guff]

 Jeff, I haven’t done any crosses in years. These small Daffodils do set lots of seeds on their own. I think mice, chipmunks must eat the seeds if not collected. I don’t see seedlings other then where I had originally planted seeds years ago.

[Jeffnz]

Lyn
We never see any seed set on our daffs, this year decided to try HP, seed did set so will see what comes the future brings. 

[Guff]

I remember reading someplace about Daffodils and Honey bees. Seems they don't care for tall Daffodils pollen, or maybe it's newer hybrids? I don't know much about them, will look come Spring to see if Honey bees are on the mini Daffodils.

[Jeffnz]

https://www.honeybeesuite.com/who-pollinates-the-daffodils/
Found this site with a plausible explanation why modern daffs have no attraction for honey bees. Plant breeders look to produce flowers that satisfy a human need only. I am guilty of this with my hellebore breeding but at least the bees still find the l pollen attractive, in fact the bees often beat me to the pollen shed which can be frustrating but never the less feeds a need.