Narcissus 2010

[Ragged Robin]

  wondering if my N bulbocodium (from tonyg last year) will flower outside this year...tantalising leaves showing 

[LucS]

Flowering now in the cold glasshouse : N. tazetta ssp tazetta

[Regelian]

Lovely, Luc,  I can smell them from over the border.  Do they ever get frosted or do you maintain temps always above 0°C?

Jamie
Cologne

[art600]

Flowering now in the cold glasshouse : N. tazetta ssp tazetta

Very nice - I look forward to seeing mine flower 

[LucS]

Lovely, Luc,  I can smell them from over the border.  Do they ever get frosted or do you maintain temps always above 0°C?

Jamie
Cologne

Both got temperatures of -5/-6 in the cold greenhouse (no freezing wind !) this winter.
I covered them a few days when the temperatures went down to -8/-9 °C
(we live only 20km from the sea).
I believe they can withstand -8/-9 °C without harm.

[Tony Willis]

Luc very nice they are a lovely bulb. Mine got down to -5c and seem okay.I have had them for several years and they have not been harmed in the past having been frozen.

[LucS]

Luc very nice they are a lovely bulb. Mine got down to -5c and seem okay.I have had them for several years and they have not been harmed in the past having been frozen.

Icy winds are a danger for frost-damage.

[Regelian]

Luc,

thanks for the info.  I had tried some paperwhites in the garden, but they didn't handle more than a few degrees below 0°C, then perished.  I was hoping the tazettas may be a bit more hardy in a protected area.  Of course, this Winter was not typical and lots of things may have given up the ghost, just as last Winter.  I do have a cold house that, like yours, gets frozen, but is protected and I can apply a bit of heat.  I think I'll try some tazettas just to see.

jamie

[Sinchets]

Jamie, I know it's only a tazetta hybrid, but this one does well for us here in Bulgaria. It is under snow just now, but is usually up early enough to have the leaves and flower stems frosted- sometimes down to -9C. This is a pic of it last year.

[Regelian]

Simon,

if it can handle your weather, it will certainly handle mine!  OK, it's settled.  I gotta get some for the new rockery.  Thanks for the input.

jamie

[Sinchets]

It's worth a go, Jamie. These were just from a UK garden centre. In the Uk they came up before Christmas and looked miserable. Here they are up later and fare much better.

[Hans A.]

Some (native) Narcissus tazetta  I found on the way to work  -  it grows here next to periodical small streams - Unfortunately a fence avoided to take some better closeup pictures. 

[Gerdk]

Hans,
Great view - it seems spring isn't far away!

Here just the opposite.

Gerd

[Rafa]

Little casting today. Gerd , it seems you have to wait some weeks to see N. cantabricus in bloom this year....

[art600]

Rafa

What temperatures are you having?  All the Narcissus look fine growing outside.