Narcissus January- February 2009

[Hans A.]

Muchas Gracias, Maggi and Rafa -
today i checked the the plants and it was the first time I recognized some differences between them...   

[Lesley Cox]

I think the dry warm rest would be the answer Mark. After all, it comes from North Africa. Mine gets what can only be called a long dry baking, the compost in the raised bedds getting too hot to touch on many days, and no water at all where AG lives. I keep some in pots as well and sometimes I've emptied the pots to repot and then left them sitting on the bench for as much as 4 months before actually getting to do the repotting (may God forgive me) and though those ones have flowered later, they have flowered as well as all the others. NOTHING  miffy about AG at all. I think it's the best of all the forms in the bulbocodium group.

[Anthony Darby]

Here's another couple of pics of my "ex 'Julia Jane'", and I notice that my other plant is actually Narcissus romieuxii JCA 805.

[Rafa]

beautiful plants Anthony 

[Tony Willis]

Anthony really nice plants and photographs. A delight to see

[Gerry Webster]

Anthony - irrespective of name or provenance they are delightful.

[Anthony Darby]

They were taken using bounced flash again, although I did had the fluorescent light on the the greenhouse.

[maggiepie]

Anthony, these are absolutely lovely, I keep running out of superlatives   

[Rob Potterton]

The image below shows a small part of our stock for Narcissus romieuxii 'Treble Chance' growing in one of our bulb tunnels. The main stock in outside coldframes are not yet showing flower buds.

[Maggi Young]

Lucky for you to have such good looking stock of Treble Chance, eh, Rob? 

 A lovely sight in the sunlight... all with their faces up to the sun! What sort of width across the face are those flower? They look pretty wide.

[Rogan]

"The image below shows a small part of our stock for Narcissus romieuxii 'Treble Chance' growing..."

Eish!!! (a particularly 'South African' expletive )

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful sight Rob !
Great to see such a bunch of them together !

[Rob Potterton]

Reference the last 3 comments above for Narcissus Treble Chance:
The flowers open this morning in poor light measure between 38 and 45mm. My knowledge of South African phrases is zero but i guess "Eish" may be close to our phrase "blooming 'eck". And this is just the smallest stock area for Treble Chance, in two outside frames we have over 200 x 15cm pots of stock plants, i'll try to get an image to show you when they bloom.
The bulbs are grown in a good / real John Innes number 2 plus approx 20% by volume of sharp grit, we water the soil twice heavily in September after a cool & dry summer rest, then again in late October - this regime produces & supports root growth, then the leaves. We have just watered heavily again during this breif warm spell.

[David Nicholson]

Rob, stop it. That's another to add to my list

[Rob Potterton]

Only 530 more David