Narcissus 2010

[Kees Green]

Things are really starting move with the daffodils, buds about to open everywhere.
This is the only one that has actually opened. A pseudonarcisuus, is this whats called the Lent Lady?

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Our cyclamineus hybrids are starting to flower in large numbers now. A lot of the dry program seedlings are flowering much earlier than normal. We have an N. assoanus flowering some 6 weeks early and an early form of NTT is about to flower some 4 weeks early.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Some species that are flowering.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
More species.

[Kees Green]

Graham those cyclamineus hybrids have me salivating, I am thoroughly enjoying your hard work. Fantastic.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Kees we have been doing our hybridising for a long while and in large quantities so the chances of getting good ones is much higher. Having said that if you choose parents carefully you can achieve the same success doing a lot fewer crosses. Out of the flowers posted one of the more interesting is the small intermediate 1Y-Y. It has good petal coverage and is quite short yet sturdy. Ideal for pot cultivation. Paul, those 6Y-R seedlings look good. It is an area where we need to do more work. We have flowered an excellent 6Y-O but I think it may have gone to daffodil heaven. Very unusual since we don't lose much once we get them to flowering size.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Oops!! Looks like I missed posting the intermediate 1Y-Y. It grows in the pot of intermediates.

[fermi de Sousa]

I've posted some pics of our daffs in the Southern Hemisphere Thread:http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5839.30
 See replies 27 and 32.
cheers
fermi

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Not as many photos as in previous years. We have moved house - the move was only 50 metres but it is the same as moving several miles. Anyway we are now fully ensconsed in our new house.
Some things have flowered very early but some things have been slowed up by a late cold snap.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
I have spent the day hybridising and taking photos so you will get to see some interesting seedlings. However this lot of photos is of species. I have been using the N. cordubensis with lots of petal coverage to do some sterile hybrid crosses. I don't tend to do many sterile crosses but with lots of miniatures it will interesting to see what we get from crossing N. cordubensis with some of our fertile miniature hybrids.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
First lot of photos of hybrids.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Our second lot of photos of hybrids. The micro mini is a stunning little flower.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
This set of photos includes our 6A-A flower. It is probably just a little too big for miniature even though it its stem is miniature height. It would be worth more as a miniature but since it is fertile so it can be used to breed with our miniature. It has the desirable characteristic of multiplying rapidly.

[galahad]

Out at the moment
Phalerope
Twinkle Boy (2 fls on the stem) - from Bill Dijk
Emperor's Waltz