Daffodils in the Southern Hemisphere - 2007

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Graham.  It is wonderful to be able to see all your miniatures and to see how you breed them.  Am learning such a lot.  I don't always click on individual photos because I have dial-up and it takes so long, and anyway your photos are very clear. I always read your posts. 

Thank you once again,  Susan.

All of this applies to me too Graham, except that today, I'm expecting to have Broadband installed, courtesy my employer.

And if we all said "thank you" for every single super post (in this and many other threads) it would be terribly boring for everyone but you do know, that we all really DO thank you, and all the others who post such super pics with really useful and interesting information.

[Mini-daffs]

 

Hi
It is nice to know that there are people out there viewing my photos for whatever reason. Remember that this is only our early season and that our flowers will run through to early October. That is a lot of photos and a lot of posting. For us the main game at this time of the year is hybridising.
And now for something completely different...
More daffodil photos.
Unfortunately my photo of our stunning apodanthe hybrid failed along with my N. triandus pulchellus photo.
However, there are some very different and in my 'umble opinion, interesting (and need I say very expensive) new hybrids among this lot of photos!!
Mark, I don't think you will see anything quite like this lot at Brian's place.
The other thing about the jonquilla hybrids is that they, like our Div 6 and standard miniatures are fertile. I also suspect that the triandus hybrids in the photos are also fertile. Now all I have to do is produce some sterile off-spring.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos.

[Mini-daffs]

 
And a few more photos

[Maggi Young]

Graham, am I missing something? Why do you need the hybrids to be sterile? So the flowers will last longer?

[Mini-daffs]

 
Maggie
My final lot of photos for the evening. The freak show. Some are actually very nice flowers but some are beyond redemption.

[Paul T]

Graham,

Fantastic pics as always.  So very many I could comment on, but I'll save you the novel.  SOOOO many of them I want to own!    Some VERY nice plants in there.

[annew]

Been away for a few days, and came back to such a feast of daffs! I especially like KB-M-6Y-W-1-07 small miniature - fully reversed with gold band.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Anne you can join Lesley in the expensive tastes in miniature daffodils class!!
The down side of having a full-time day job. Off to check the daffodils in the dark.

[Paul T]

Graham,

All veyr nice, particularly the first and the second last ones in that series.  Love the forms of them.  Beautiful. 

[mark smyth]

the one with the gold band looks, to me, to be a superior 'Gipsy Queen'

[Mini-daffs]

Mark
Gipsy Queen might be a reverse bicolor and is probably in the parentage of the cyclamineus hybrid in question (probably two to three generations back otherwise it is difficult to get the degree of reflex) but I would hardly describe a good quality cyclamineus hybrid with nice reflexing petals as similar to Gipsy Queen that has inflexing petals. Texture-wise the cyclamineus hybrid is far superior.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I could live with a clump of 1y-y in my garden Graham !

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Luc, the 1Y-Y in my photos stands a whole 5cm tall so even if you had a clump it may be a bit difficult to see the clump. It would ok in pots or in alpine troughs or even some sort of rock garden but probably not in an ordinary garden.
As you want lots of them you may also join the Lesley and Anne class for expensive tastes in miniature daffodils.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

5 cm
Don't make me drool even more Graham - I would easily find a suitable place in a trough or a raised bed....