Narcissus 2010

[mark smyth]

Only joking  

This is my N. pallidiflorus praecox

[mark smyth]

Anne I saw your Jim Lad at the NI Daffodil show today but you weren't the supplier. Are others allowed to twin it and sell it?

[Tony Willis]

Jamie and Gerry thanks for your replies/comments,I have found them most interesting.

[annew]

Anne I saw your Jim Lad at the NI Daffodil show today but you weren't the supplier. Are others allowed to twin it and sell it?

Sure - I'm just glad to see it appearing more. I wonder who supplied it then?

[annew]

Here are some I photographed today - firstly a lovely hybrid that Dave Toole sent me 3 years ago and flowering for the first time. Well worth the wait, I must ask him about its history.
(Maggi please tell me again how to insert the pix in the text? I will write it down somewhere I can't lose it this time, I promise.)
Next a pan of seedlings of N rupicola marvieri x rupicola watieri with lots of variation.
Next our very first daffodil, N rupicola, still a favourite and deliciously scented.

[Regelian]

Lovely, Anne.  I'm smitten by these rupicola hybrids.

Here are the first two in the garden, Snipe and Small Talk.

[Gerry Webster]

Very nice Anne. N. rupicola (the species) is a beautiful plant - the perfect miniature daff.

[Armin]

Super narcissus images.

Gerry, Jamie,
thanks for your comments on the moschatus vs. alpestris and your opinions on the DNA matter.
Complicated and partial controverse but some light in the dark tunnel in my amateur view.
Certainly the DNA report is a great work!

[Ragged Robin]

N rupicola, still a favourite and deliciously scented.

Wow! A perfect miniature, the shape is absolutely gorgeous Anne 

[Rafa]

Beautiful plants, I would like to post some pictures, but It seems there is any problem with my account...

[Maggi Young]

PM me with details of what your problem seems to be , Rafa..... I can see no reason why you cannot post photos, as you have in the past.....

[tonyg]

I grew this plant from AGS seed in 2002. The resulting 2 seedlings were very different - one like the first picture and the other like the second. Number two is completely sterile, and  although the flower is rather big and blousy for such a short stem, it has a certain baroque appeal for me. What I'd like to know is - has anybody any ideas what it is? Do you think it may be eugenae crossed with some other species and if so what? The seed list doesn't specify whether the seed was wild collected or not. Maybe someone reading this was the seed donor?

Anne - re the large pale N eugeniae.  I have something very similar, possible from the same source.  There are two forms in my pot, one almost identical to yours the other a much darker yellow, close to 'standard daff' but large flowered like the pale one.  I don't have the knowledge to tell you what it is though

[annew]

I thought you were about to enlighten me there Tony. 

[Gerdk]

Stunning daffs, Anne - especially the marvieri-rupicula hybrids!

I add some pics from yesterday here

1.+2.  N. hedraeanthus x triandrus  (x cazorlanus) - wild occuring hybrid
3. N. hedraeanthus - a selection which opens with a hint of yellow and then turned to white
4. Narcissus x susannae (N. cantabricus x N. triandrus)

Gerd

[annew]

Stunning Gerd, the white hedreanthus is beautiful.