Flowering now September 2007

[mark smyth]

saw loads of them in Belize also

[Rafa]

Hello, another mexican plant, Tigridia chiapensis

[mark smyth]

jaw dropping stunning!

Itchy fingers will now make me search for Tigridia on the 'net

[Rafa]

Thank you Mark,

Maggi, about Narcissus x perez-larae, you are right it's an hybrid bethween these species but I'm not sure as we know populations with N. serotinus and N. x perez-larae but without any testimony of N. cavanillesii. The first locataton of N. cavanillesii is hundred km far from this particular population.
Here some pictures from my friend Carles Jiménez Box of N. x perez-larae.

Sorry, I have to make a correction, the mixed population is even more bizarre as it is between N. miniatus and N. x perelzarae

[Maggi Young]

I did not know of this difference with N.  cavanillesii being so distant. A mystery with the parents, then?
Thank you for the pictures... it is an unusual "soft" colour.

The sharp focus of the Tigridia is perfect, by the way, such a delight to share these pictures, thank you.

[Anthony Darby]

What ever that narcissus's parents are it is beautiful and worthy of a place in cultivation.

[annew]

It's fascinating - I wouldn't even have recognised it as a daffodil!

[Lesley Cox]

Well, what's 100 kms between friends? We all up sticks and go for a little holiday now and then. Maybe N. cavanillesii decided to do the same. "Look you lot, I'm thoroughly tired of ironing all those yellow dresses and fighting off the flower pickers. You can take over for a couple of weeks. I'm off to visit my daffy friends for a while." And we all know that while on holiday we get up to things we wouldn't do at home. Well, some of us do or we used to.

[Gerdk]

Today with bright sunshine I visited the area around Nettersheim in the Eifel (south of Cologne) hoping to find some Colchicums flowering. Although there were heavy rains and the plants are situated in an area which was flooded at Saturday I was not disappointed.
1. Colchicum autumnale, grass with signs of the flood
2. - 5. Colchicums (all near the river Urft)
6. An old roman milestone erected near the meadow with colchicums
7. Landscape near Nettersheim
8. - 10. Römisches Matronenheiligtum (Roman Matrons Sanctuary) near Nettersheim
- it seems, some people still adore these old godesses of Celtic - Germanic origin. Please believe me it was not me who left the colchicum flower there, it was a young mother with her child.

Gerd

[Gerdk]

Here is the rest of my Eifel-trip

1. Fruits of Euonymus europaeus
2. Populus tremula - leaves
3. Fruits of Rhamnus catharticus

Gerd

[annew]

Thank you Gerd - It loos like a wonderful day

[Armin]

Gerd, nice impressions from the Eifel.

My Sternbergia lutea please me every year.

[Lesley Cox]

I really like the Matrons' Sanctuary. We could do with a few of those in many different places.

[Maggi Young]

It is great to see the old stone carvings at the Sanctuary. Some sort of sandstone?

[Gerdk]

It is great to see the old stone carvings at the Sanctuary. Some sort of sandstone?

These are replicas which were damaged regularly (see last pic with the colchicum). The originals are safe in a museum. I think the material is sandstone or limestone.

Gerd