Winter Narcissus - to early 2012

[ronm]

See also discussions in Iris, Fritillaria, Galanthus, Crocus etc. etc. threads. 
I agree Rafa, it makes my head hurt too.

[Gerdk]

To be sicere, the more I know about Narcissus more difficoult to understand.... The first time I visit the thing that we use to call "natural genetic labs" I returned frightened!! For the moment, I focus my neurones in understand bulbocodium group but there are also similar complex scenarios with big trumpets, autumn Narcissi, jonquillas group, tazetta group... it is mad.

Rafa, eso es! 

Gerd

[YT]

N. cantabricus (probably) 'petunioides' is flowering One of my bulb friends kindly sent me 3 bulbs of this 'petunioides' last summer. He won 10 bulbs of these in an internet auction and gave me 3 for using cross pollinating to my petunioides seedlings from JJA Seeds. Unfortunately my JJA stock plants suddenly lost its vigour last autumn and have no flowers this season So I pollinated it by itself.

[art600]

WOW 

[TC]

A trip to Threave gardens today revealed many clumps of Narc. cyclamineus.  Most of them about the same size as the picture

[mark smyth]

wow I've never seen so many in such a small area

N. lagoi open pollinated showing some variation

[David Nicholson]

A few more of mine:-

Narcissus bulbocodium var. graellsii

A lovely little yellow trumpet (stem 10cm high) I got from Brian Duncan last year. Brian just described it as a little yellow trumpet seedling for which he had lost the label.

Narcissus 'Wee Bee'

[annew]

Very nice, David. I love the green stripes on graelsii.
Some various N hedreanthus etc for Rafa:
From Rannveig Wallis, as N. luteolentus, sweet scent:

From seed exchange, as N. hedreanthus -no scent:

From Brian Duncan, as N. hedreanthus luteolentus -no scent:

From seed exchange, as N. hedreanthus luteolentus -no scent:

From Brian Duncan, N. hedreanthus luteolentus yellow form -no scent:

Lastly, a tiny N. bulbocodium labelled 'ex Braganca' from Brian Duncan - smell of pepper, and seems to be pollen sterile:

[annew]

Other N. hedreanthus that I have, have gone over, so cannot comment on scent or not.
Narcissus Mitzi is a new one to me and an immediate favourite. I've pleased that some of the new crop of hybrids are very similar in miniature.

[annew]

Finally, a N jacetanus for Rafa to play with, a nice pot of N. 'Coo' I hope will last for Loughborough, and the strange, rather baroque N. eugenae that is performing well this year.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Quite a display Anne !!  Wonderful selection !

I have Narcissus "Mitzi" flowering out in the garden as well ! 

[Martin Baxendale]

Some nice seedlings there, Anne. I especially like the white/cream one in the last pic.

[Martin Baxendale]

And that N. eugenae is pretty wow! 

[ronm]

An absolutely wonderful collection shown beautifully Anne. I hope at least some will be available to view 'in the flesh' at Loughborough, .
What do you think?

[annew]

I hope so. I've had to cover all the greenhouse vents with mesh to keep the queen bumblebees out. In one day they had drilled holes in many of my flowers to rob the nectar.