Narcissus March 2009 -

[Martin Baxendale]

Paul Christian's Rare Plants usually sells N. cyclamineus . His Autumn catalogue with narcissus, crocus etc. should be coming out and appearing on the website quite soon. Here's a link :  http://www.rareplants.co.uk/search.asp?s=x36mzp296156&strKeywords=narcissus+cyclamineus&strSearchCriteria=all&CAT_ID=0

Broadleigh Bulbs also often have cyclamineus:   http://www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk/

[annew]

That's a lovely hybrid, Martin. Maybe it'll be easier to grow than the species.
I took a picture of several of the small yellow trumpet hybrids side by side for comparison. There's not much to choose between some of them. Left to right:
Hummingbird, Douglasbank (I think), Bagatelle, my own hybrid shown earlier, Midget.
After that is Snook, one of Keira's daffodils, flowering at about 18cm.

[annew]

I can't open the luteolentus photo either, but I do have your plant in flower now. I also have one from Buried Treasure which looks completely different. I'll try and get photos tomorrow.

Here is a photo of the three pots I have of Narcissus hedreanthus luteolentus in flower now. Left to right: luteolentus yellow form, luteolentus (both from Brian D), luteolentus (Rannveig Wallis).

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful stuff Anne !  Beautiful wee treasures.

Here's flowering in my garden today - 20 cm high - it took me 20 pictures to get some in focus - the camera kept focussing on the Daphne arbuscula in the background...  :

Narcissus 'Engländer' - not sure about the 'umlaut' on the a 

[Lesley Cox]

Anne, is it possible your 3 pots of N hed. luteolents are all hybrids? or at least the outer two? None seems to have a typical hedraeanthus habit, and to be very tall for that species.

'Englander' is a little honey Luc. How tall is it?

[Anthony Darby]

Narcissus "gaditanus" (?) from Portugal - I was given a few bulbs of this purported species, but due to a lack of suitable literature, I cannot verify this name nor find (m-) any references to it on the internet. Can anybody help?

Rogan - N. gaditanus is a genuine species belonging to the section Jonquillae  & native to Portugal & Spain. Have you tried Google? There seem to be plenty of references.

I have two pots labelled Narcissus gaditanus. One is a very small rupicola with flowers ~ 1cm across, so I was sold the wrong plant. The other is just leaves, although I suspect this is the real species?

[Martin Baxendale]

Didn't I read somewhere that 'Englander' is the same thing as 'Mite', just grown for a while under a different name?

[Maggi Young]

Englander, as it is known in the UK, has been variously thought to be Queen of Spain and who knows what else?!    All very confusing.

[Martin Baxendale]

That's a lovely hybrid, Martin. Maybe it'll be easier to grow than the species.

I'm hoping so, Anne. That was one of the aims of the cross. I've a couple of others flowering but none as good as this, more like ordinary cyclamineus. This one will be getting chipped this year, even though it's the first year of flowering. I won't see it flower again for 2 or 3 years at least.  

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Englander, as it is known in the UK, has been variously thought to be Queen of Spain and who knows what else?!    All very confusing.

The original bulb came from Ron Beeston many moons ago...

[Michael]

Here is a picture taken today of N. cyclamineus in my garden.

  OMG i love it!!! My compliments for the nice display!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

'Englander' is a little honey Luc. How tall is it?

20 cm Lesley

[Diane Clement]

The original bulb came from Ron Beeston many moons ago...  

That's a coincidence, Ron is in this thread -  last pic in first message
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3186.0

[Maggi Young]

The original bulb came from Ron Beeston many moons ago...  

That's a coincidence, Ron is in this thread -  last pic in first message
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3186.0

  These plantsmen get everywhere! 

[Gerry Webster]

Narcissus "gaditanus" (?) from Portugal - I was given a few bulbs of this purported species, but due to a lack of suitable literature, I cannot verify this name nor find (m-) any references to it on the internet. Can anybody help?

Rogan - N. gaditanus is a genuine species belonging to the section Jonquillae  & native to Portugal & Spain. Have you tried Google? There seem to be plenty of references.

I have two pots labelled Narcissus gaditanus. One is a very small rupicola with flowers ~ 1cm across, so I was sold the wrong plant. The other is just leaves, although I suspect this is the real species?

Anthony - you may well be right. Blanchard claims it is "unrewarding to cultivate". He states that the bulbs keep splitting & are difficult to get to flowering size.  Apparently they also need a good baking.