Narcissus 2010

[Kees Green]

Keep the pics coming Paul, I love to see your hoops.
Wonder when mini daffs will post a pic   

Hopefully in a week or so I will have some more hoops out to show, we have had frosts the last few days and of course the nice sunny, but freezing, days that the frosts bring sure bring on the hoops.

[annew]

Very nice daffs, Paul. Good to get my daff fix while mine are resting. Your autumn colour strain is very pretty. Did you breed them yourself?

[Paul T]

Anne,

No, they were seed from a guy in America who was crossing all his earliest autumn flowering types.  So far there have been at least 7 different colour variants.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show Paul !!!
(Nice to have you back, by the way !  )

[Kees Green]

Well I thought I would do some pics and post.
Thank you Lesley for the Atlas Gold last year, they have really multiplied in a year, I have 10 buds in one pot and 8 currently in the other, I just hope that citrinus has done the same, these two are among my favourite of the hoops-along with the perfectly formed Taffetta and the cantabricus whites.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely to see all the SH Daffs.

[Kees Green]

Just for an update from my last post.
My Atlas Gold now have 10 and 14 buds in the two pots, this seems a fantastic increase from the 4 flowers in each last year. Not quite sure why as I simply had them in the garden and they did not have a dry summer which is what they are supposed to like. I might seperate them after they seed and experiment with keeping some completely dry and others in the weather.
All my narcissus have popped their heads up now except for Gambas and Bell song, even the poeticus are up-seems to be a strange season with many of the hoops a month ahead of where they were last year and yet the Wee gems and Gambas have been very slow.

[annew]

Very nice, Kees.

[fermi de Sousa]

Still frosty in the mornings here.
Narcissus "Tarlatan"




cheers
fermi

[Kees Green]

Very nice Fermi, lovely clump.

[Kees Green]

The Atlas Gold look a bit better now so an updated pic, and my first ever cyclamineus bud-seems quite early for this one and I note that my other cyclamineus bulbs have not even started to show above the ground yet.

[fermi de Sousa]

Kees,
nice potful of "Atlas Gold"!
My earliest "yellow" hoop is "Galligaskins" which was raised by Glenbrook Bulb Farm in Tassie>
cheers
fermi

[Kees Green]

That is a very nice specimen, not sure if its here in NZ.

[Paul T]

Fermi,

Both of those have started opening here as well, although for yellow varieties... "Twenty Fiver" was first, and then some seedling romieuxii that I got from a friend years ago.  They're great form, and I love them dearly, even with no names on them. 

Great pics too, Kees.

[fermi de Sousa]

That is a very nice specimen, not sure if its here in NZ.

Hi Kees,
Marcus Harvey may be able to supply it - have a talk to Lesley.
This is what I have as "Jessamy"


And what I received as Narcissus bulbocodium var. graellsii


Yes, Paul, ALL N. romieuxii seedlings seem to be worth growing
cheers
fermi