Winter Narcissus - to early 2012

[Gerry Webster]

Narcissus bulbocodium  

From a collection by Bob & Rannveig Wallis (RRW8832); Tahanout, High Atlas, Morocco.

I posted these plants on 8th March (post 337) when they were still partially in bud. I’m posting them again now that all the flowers are fully expanded. They are the most impressive bulbocodiums I grow.

[Lesley Cox]

Wince Anne? Weep more like. Asturiensis is such perfection that to treat it like that is evil! Tragic anyway.

I'm doing a lot of weeping lately. Spending the rest of today quietly crying to myself having listened to yet another debacle performed to perfection by the NZ cricket team.

[Anthony Darby]

Ah well, at least we'll have one of our basses back for choral evensong tomorrow, unless he spends the extra days on the golf course?

[ashley]

That's a lovely one Gerry.  I struggle to get bulbocodiums to flower reliably, so hope that seed-grown plants will perform better under my conditions.

[Rafa]

Really nice Gerry, I would like to grow it!!
Here is N. willkommii, I suppose it is currently called with other names, as the diferences between the related species are very little.

[Gerry Webster]

Really nice Gerry, I would like to grow it!!
Here is N. willkommii, I suppose it is currently called with other names, as the diferences between the related species are very little.

I like it too Rafa. If I get any seed I'll send you some.
N. willkommii is very attractive.

[David Nicholson]

One from Anne's List-Narcissus 'Kenellis'

[Sinchets]

My first to flower here is Narcissus jacetanus. It had only been open a day when a bumblebee decided to make lufe easier and cut hole through the trumpet 

[ArnoldT]

I don't know how unusual this is but my Narcissus romieuxii 'Julia Jane' has developed a bulbil at the base of the seed pod.

[David Nicholson]

That's a new one on me Arnold.

[annew]

Me too, very weird.

[Gerry Webster]

That's very interesting Arnold. I've neither seen nor read about this in Narcissus. Once, several years ago, I observed something similar (an axillary bulbil) on a fritillary (Liliaceae) but this is, perhaps, not so surprising since several lilies routinely behave in this way. It will be interesting to see how it develops when planted - my fritillary bulbil was eaten by something.  

[Lesley Cox]

And it should be true to name Arnold.

Who is the bass Anthony? It would by nice to have something good to think about any of the cricketers right now.

[Anthony Darby]

His name's Michael, and he didn't show. We still had four basses, so no problem. Having to learn "new" harmonies and words to some hymns. I thought Church Hymnary 4 was bad for rewriting poetry!

[JoshY46013]

Wow, quite unusual for Amaryllidaceae.

I saw another plant in Amaryllidaceae the other day doing the same thing, it appeared to be a Hippeastrum species.  The botanist that provided the picture had never seen anything like it either?

How strange..