September 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Hillview croconut]

Oh what bad luck Fermi,

I loved that white/blue anemone - I'd better check my seed pot.

A few rarer narcissus or narcissi??

Narcissus triandrus ssp pallidulus
Narcissus rupicola
Narcissus atlanticus - torn the flower to pollinate sorry!
Narcissus cordubensis - a bit tatty but couldn't resist the effect of the sun on the petals

Cheers, Marcus

[fermi de Sousa]

Narcissus atlanticus - torn the flower to pollinate sorry!

Thank goodness! I thought that maybe you'd bred a special one to annoy Lesley!
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Is rupicola rare? I have about 30 pots at present with buds and flowers, waiting for the salestable at OAGG show on 27th-29th. As well a couple of patches in a raised bed and half a dozen pots of seedlings, even those, with a few flowers. It flowers in 2 and a half years from seed. Lovely thing. Also pleased to see N triantrus ssp triandrus and ssp capax flowering - still in seed pots as well as in beds, and seedlings of ssp pallidulus from Rafa growing well. But most Narcissus will be well over before the show except maybe 'Pencrebar' just starting. I'll do pics at the show if the light is anything like decent. Are you still coming over Fermi?

[Hillview croconut]

Hi Lesley,

Its obviously not rare at your place. I was speaking relatively. In it appears to be rare here - in fact I'd be interested in a straw poll amongst Australian forumist of who does grow it. I have never seen it listed, maybe Glenbrook might have listed it once or twice.

In the past I have not found it easy to keep especially when compared to its white counterpart N. waiteri.

I'd like to see a photo of ssp capax.

I know this isn't about plants but I just can't resist posting this. A clip of, without doubt, one of New Zealand's greatest exports to Australia - John Clarke  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-13/understanding-the-gfc-with-clarke-and-dawe/4260276

Cheers, Marcus

[Paul T]

I don't have rupicola.

[Hillview croconut]

Hi Paul,

Are you going to post pics from your Victorian jaunt?

Have you tried to grow Narcissus rupicola or has it never crossed your path?
BTW I should state that that pot came via Jim Archibald seed, I guess from a Rafa collection. I have several more lots from Rafa doing very well. I'll send you a few in the summer.

Cheers, Marcus

[Paul T]

Marcus,

I am intending to post pics..... just been procrastinating.    As usual.    So many pics taken that I'm putting off just going through and sorting them more than anything. 

I am not sure I've ever had it in my collection, certainly not recently.  I've had watieri in the past and lost it one year to too dry I think.  I replaced it a couple of years ago from you and it is doing fine.  Has flowered again this year.  No sign of multiplying at this stage, but I don't know if it is one of those species that doesn't multiply much?  If rupicola is a yellow version of watieri (more or less) than I will have to try to find it.  I love watieri, such a cute little thing.

[Hillview croconut]

I know that feeling Paul, only too well.

Do you grow this daphne? Its called "collina of the gardens" in Australia. I got it from Don Schofield who probably got it from the Teeses at Yamina.

Its a lovely thing and much better than D. sericea which has such dirty pale pink flowers, well mine do anyway.

Cheers, Marcus

[Paul T]

Not the straight collina, Marcus, but probably a dozen or so others including a few species from seed.  I have one collina hybrid as well I think, but I'd have to go and look at my tags to see what I have out there.  I can give you a list of my Daphne if you're interested?

[Lesley Cox]

I have collina but a plant on a long stem, tuft and foliage and (now) buds at the top. I'll have to plant it out with things to snuggle up to the stem. Hoping D. petraea is in bloom for our show. It's covered in buds, in fact both of them but only one in a pot, the other in a trough.

So far as I can see Marcus, ssp capax is rather larger in the flower with a very plump corolla and leaves which are nearer to prostrate but not as much so as ssp loiseleurii. Mine may be wrongly named. Many from the source have been.

If anyone wants seed of N. rupicola let me know. It always gives plenty.

[Hillview croconut]

Hi again,

This is Daphne sericea collected as seed near Omolos in Crete. Makes lovely big clumpy bush of shiny dark green leaves but its generous clusters of small flowers are a bit of a let down.

Cheers, Marcus

[Anthony Darby]

I don't have rupicola.

My rupicola looks like grass. Seedlings.

[Hillview croconut]

My rupicola looks like grass. Seedlings.

Maybe they are grass? Labels can be untrustworthy sometimes8)

[Anthony Darby]

Definitely rupicola, or at least Narcissus sp., but might as well be grass for the next few years. I have various pots of Narcissus sp. seedlings in the same state.

[Hillview croconut]

I like looking at pots of grass-like seedlings - most of my family and my partner don't appear to share my delight ...
but they didn't sow the seeds and in the doing invest (in many cases ill-founded) a shy hope.

Cheers, Marcus