April Narcissus 2012

[Gerry Webster]

Maybe this helps it -

Annual rainfall (mm)

South Holderness - 600 ( but a lot less in last few years )
Segovia - 500
Atlas Mountains  - 700

I'm not sure  figures on "annual rainfall" are particularly informative. Many bulbs -  & certainly some narcissus - flower in running water but are completely dry (& often hot) when dormant.

[Anthony Darby]

Not unlike myself Gerry. When I'm hot and dry I prefer to be dormant.

[Gerry Webster]

Not unlike myself Gerry. When I'm hot and dry I prefer to be dormant.

Anthony - in that case, I recommend you bury yourself in a mix of equal parts JI3 & grit.

[Anthony Darby]

Sounds like what Mark Antony proposed after the happening on the Ides of March? Grit I can get, now, but not JI3. Have to make something myself with bags of topsoil and seed compost and fine pumice.

[zvone]

Hi!

Narcissus from My Garden:



Best Regards!  Zvone

[Brian Ellis]

The pictures of the firsts at the Norfolk & Norwich Spring Show which incorporates the East of England Championship (Class 1) are now online:
http://www.nnhs.org.uk/springshowgaller.html

[ian mcenery]

None of my watieri have seen fit to flower this year...........

Same here. Likewise in 2011. It seems very fussy about summer treatment, hence my doubts about the identity of Ron's plant.
Here is mine from 2010.

Not one I find easy either only one flower this year

Here a few of mine in the garden.

[annew]

Lovely, Ian! How do you keep the slugs off?

[Gerry Webster]

None of my watieri have seen fit to flower this year...........

Same here. Likewise in 2011. It seems very fussy about summer treatment, hence my doubts about the identity of Ron's plant.
Here is mine from 2010.

Not one I find easy either only one flower this year

Here a few of mine in the garden.

Very nice Ian. I'm impressed that you can grow N. rupicola in the open garden.
Slugs are a problem here too & this year, caterpillars.

[ian mcenery]

Lovely, Ian! How do you keep the slugs off?

None of my watieri have seen fit to flower this year...........

Same here. Likewise in 2011. It seems very fussy about summer treatment, hence my doubts about the identity of Ron's plant.
Here is mine from 2010.

Not one I find easy either only one flower this year

Here a few of mine in the garden.

Very nice Ian. I'm impressed that you can grow N. rupicola in the open garden.
Slugs are a problem here too & this year, caterpillars.

Thanks

The plant is on what I call my scree garden but slugs can and do go here (well really I do use occasional slug pellets and hope )

Can't claim any real skill here but this clone seems to do well in this spot and I notice is even seeding in front of the main plant. It is so small that it has to be in a raised position so that I can at least see it  . My pot under cover is much more leggy

[ChrisB]

I'm so pleased.... I grew this Narcissus from Rafa's seed in 2008 and this is the first flower on the bulbs: N. bulbocodium ssp. bulbocodium  And the other I purchased from the bulbil exchange last Sept at the Discussion weekend.  I had no idea it would flower so soon...

[Maggi Young]

The pictures of the firsts at the Norfolk & Norwich Spring Show which incorporates the East of England Championship (Class 1) are now online:
http://www.nnhs.org.uk/springshowgaller.html

Good to see, Brian. Great website and Journal, by the way!!

[Brian Ellis]

Why, thank you Maggi 

[Anthony Darby]

Had a visit from Bill Dijk on Thursday, and these were among the goodies I received>

[FrazerHenderson]

The pictures of the firsts at the Norfolk & Norwich Spring Show which incorporates the East of England Championship (Class 1) are now online:
http://www.nnhs.org.uk/springshowgaller.html

Brian
Splendid website review of daffs. There's some genuine quality there, equal to the best of the northern growers. Thanks again for sharing.

Frazer