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Melvyn Jope

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« Reply #210 on: March 20, 2009, 11:52:13 AM »
A plant I received as Narcissus calcicola from Serras Caudeiros. Easy to grow and very floriferous.
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« Reply #211 on: March 20, 2009, 11:57:23 AM »
Ah, that's cute and looks a good doer. I lost mine. Another pot of imposters, and I'll take a pic tonight is one labelled Narcissus cuatrecasassii from SRGC seed. It's another pot of rupicola. I do have a pot of real cuatrecasassii, which I got from Fausto Ceni in Italy.
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« Reply #212 on: March 20, 2009, 01:06:36 PM »
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« Reply #213 on: March 20, 2009, 01:24:34 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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« Reply #214 on: March 20, 2009, 01:51:55 PM »
Quote from: Melvyn Jope on March 20, 2009, 11:52:13 AM
A plant I received as Narcissus calcicola from Serras Caudeiros. Easy to grow and very floriferous.
Melvyn - that's really handsome. I wish mine would flower. How do you treat it?
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Melvyn Jope

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« Reply #215 on: March 20, 2009, 02:27:43 PM »
Gerry, no special treatment, it grows in the same mix that I use for Galanthus which tends to have a fair amount of coarse sand and leafmould so is open and probably quite acidic. Repotted every year in plastic pots standing on sand and kept just about frost free. I think I have more success with this than most other Narcissus species. I hope that helps.
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« Reply #216 on: March 20, 2009, 03:06:43 PM »
I think the secret may be the heat they receive in the summer? Where do you live Melvyn? Is this clone available from a nursery?
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Melvyn Jope

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« Reply #217 on: March 20, 2009, 04:25:20 PM »
I live in Surrey so most years its likely to be a bit warmer than your area! Its not available from any nursery, the friend from Denmark that gave it to me collected it many years ago in Portugal.
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« Reply #218 on: March 20, 2009, 05:34:29 PM »
Melvyn - thanks for the info.  My plants derive from a Portuguese collection by Mike Salmon; some came from Peter Moore (Tilebarn) a few years ago & others I've raised from Salmon seed. I've managed to flower them just once. Brighton should be at least as warm as Surrey - maybe you have a particularly floriferous form.
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« Reply #219 on: March 20, 2009, 08:33:23 PM »
This miniature daffodil I received two years ago from a friend as N. 'Lady Skelmersdale' But there seems to exist no Narcissus with that name. Might it be 'Skelmersdale Gold', which is mentioned in J. Wells' book 'Modern Miniature Daffodils'? The short description there would fit quite well. It is very early, flowering with 'Rijnveld's Early Sensation' and N. asturiensis on a stem of 15 cm.

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« Reply #220 on: March 20, 2009, 08:43:04 PM »
This is the registration record of 'Skelmersdale Gold'  http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/registerpages/daffdetails.asp?ID=221071

Fits the  rather scant description  :-X
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« Reply #221 on: March 20, 2009, 09:42:13 PM »
It looks the same shape as Skelmersdale Gold on Daffseek
 http://daffseek.org/query/query-detail.php?photo2=035c0b16a460fe5da8e84368d36f75e8&pagenum1=1
But yours looks much nicer!
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« Reply #222 on: March 20, 2009, 10:42:53 PM »
I'm on Vivienne's laptop a mine can't access the web site. Can't find my narcissus in Blanchard's book. :-\
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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« Reply #223 on: March 21, 2009, 12:24:47 AM »
Thank you, Maggie and Anne, for these two valuable links. It really seems to be quite close to 'Skelmersdale Gold', though according to the photo on daffseek, perianth and corona seem to have two different shades of yellow, which my one does not have at all.
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« Reply #224 on: March 21, 2009, 08:26:46 PM »
Quote from: ashley on March 19, 2009, 11:08:43 PM

'Segovia' left, 'Xit' right, 'Sabrosa' below


Does 'Segovia' xit left while 'Xit' xits right? (Sorry, :D)
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