Narcissus 2010

[Kees Green]

Looks like the first to flower for me this year will be cantabricus, all ready a few nice buds showing-pretty sure this is quite early for her in Dunedin.
We have had some pretty good weather lately and there are rumours of water restrictions, as mentioned previously though thats how the hoops like to have spent the Summer-quite dry. I have them in the garden here.

[Gail]

A fairly random selection of my daffodils;

'Canaliculatus'
Chiva
Sir Winston Churchill
Rugulosus Flore Pleno
Fruit Cup
Thalia
Pipit
Phantom

[fermi de Sousa]

A fairly random selection of my daffodils;

'Canaliculatus'
Chiva
Sir Winston Churchill
Rugulosus Flore Pleno
Fruit Cup
Thalia
Pipit
Phantom

Hi Gail,
that's a great flowering on N. canaliculatus! What's your secret?

"Pipit" is one of my faves, too!
cheers
fermi

[Gail]

Hi Gail,
that's a great flowering on N. canaliculatus! What's your secret?

"Pipit" is one of my faves, too!
cheers
fermi

No secret - I planted two clumps out, one has totally disappeared, the pictured bulbs have been there nearly 10 years without increasing.  It's sunny and dry where they are.

[Ragged Robin]

Caught in the evening sun a new group of Narcissus Jack Snipe looking paper thin

[Gail]

Narcissus poeticus opening now.

Has anyone ever been to the Valley of the Narcissi in the Ukraine? Sounds rather wonderful....
http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20051/104

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Narcissus 'Bilbo' flowering now and as it was on 30/4.

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus poeticus flowering today in New Jersey.

Arnold

[Kees Green]

Hi, update from Dunedin, NZ. Cantabricus flowering and romieuxii, monophyllus, taffeta, clusii and Julia Jane all have buds.
Weather is fine for next few days so I expect a bit more progress as well with seedlings, I can not believe how big some of my second year bulbocod seedlings are.

[Maggi Young]

You have a lot to look forward to there, by the sounds of it, Kees!
It is very saytisfying how soon well grown narcissus babies will fatten up... well done on your young bulbos!

[goatshed]

Having just come back from a short trip round the Alps & Provence, I thought I'd share this field of wild daffs. We came across a valley in the Auvergne with just miles and miles of wild narcissi. Lovely to look at, but can't be much fun for the farmers.

[Gail]

Beautiful Gill, thanks for posting

[Gerry Webster]

Beautiful Gill. On the back of John Blanchard's book Narcissus there is a photo of an enormous population of  N. pseudonarcissus in the Auvergne. I wonder if you found the same population?

[goatshed]

Possibly, though there seems to be a vast area where they are common, so there may well be other valleys like that. They do seem to like it wet, and there's a large amount of rainfall there It's wet here too, but I only have a solitary one growing near the barn.

Edited to confirm - we went back to a different area of the Auvergne yesterday, and every valley seems to be the same - full of daffodils. Spring is very late there, we stopped for a picnic in the car and it snowed. No orchids though except for o.mascula some lovely deep purple violas on the mountainsides though (no photos - too cold!).

[FrazerHenderson]

Here are a few shots of the sturdiest narcissus available, which I recently found at the Southport Botanic Gardens.