Winter Narcissus - to early 2012

[ArnoldT]

David:

Looks like there's some hightlight to come

[annew]

Hi Ron, first time flowering from my own crosses.

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus triandrus w/c

[ronm]

They are really nice Anne. What criteria do you use for selection and do you sell your selections? I dont know Narcissus at all but we'd be interested in growing some of those you have shown.

[Gerry Webster]

Narcissus triandrus w/c

Very nice Arnold. How do you grow this? I've never been able to keep it - & I'm not alone in the UK!

[ArnoldT]

It sits in the stainless steel plunge bed with all the other Narcissus.  Went unwatered through our hot summer months where the temps in the greenhouse reached 110F.  Second year and plan to repot this year.

I would say it received a serious baking this past summer.

[ronm]

That is very nice Arnold. Do you grow it from seed?

[David Nicholson]

I would say it received a serious baking this past summer.

Perhaps that is the key?

[ArnoldT]

It was a bulb gift from a friend who probably picked it up from either Mike Salmon or the Archibalds

[annew]

I don't grow N. triandrus well either, so it's nice to see yours, Arnold.
Ron, I'm trying to breed very small trumpet types, mainly. I look for a flower in proportion to the height of the stem, upright growing, with the flowers above the leaves. I particularly enjoy the paler colours and bicolours. I propagate from the ones I like best, and not from ones that are weak growers.
When I have enough, they go into my mail order list.

[Gerry Webster]

It sits in the stainless steel plunge bed with all the other Narcissus.  Went unwatered through our hot summer months where the temps in the greenhouse reached 110F.  Second year and plan to repot this year.

I would say it received a serious baking this past summer.

That's interesting Arnold because Blanchard, among others, suggests that in the wild it does not like excessive heat and tends to grow either at high altitudes or in shade. However, I recall Rafa posting pics here showing it growing with N. rupicola which likes, or at least tolerates, high temperatures. All very odd.
I've tried it several times, either in pots or in the garden, & always lost it. Even Blanchard says he has not found it easy to grow.

[ronm]

Thanks Anne, think I'll take a look at some later in the year.
Would you please add me to your e mail catalogue list? Thanks.

[annew]

Where we saw it growing wild, it was almost always in shade, but probably dry when dormant.

[art600]

Narcissus triandrus w/c

Very nice Arnold. How do you grow this? I've never been able to keep it - & I'm not alone in the UK!

Moi aussi    And it is difficult to obtain good seed.  Currently have some seedlings from SRGC seed - hope they survive to flowering size.

Do have one pot of triandrus from a kind forumist.

[Gerry Webster]

Narcissus triandrus w/c

Very nice Arnold. How do you grow this? I've never been able to keep it - & I'm not alone in the UK!

Moi aussi    And it is difficult to obtain good seed.  Currently have some seedlings from SRGC seed - hope they survive to flowering size.
Do have one pot of triandrus from a kind forumist.

Susan Band (Pitcairn Alpines) supplies excellent bulbs of N. triandrus. I had some from her in 2008 &, as usual, killed them within a year.