Winter flowering Narcissus 2012 - 2013

[Darren]

And an exceptionally nice form of M.pygmaea it is too YT, and very well grown! Massonia are very late here with some M.depressa only just starting to shoot. And I've Nerine sarniensis just coming into flower now - long after the leaves appeared

No pics of Narcissi yet but I've had 'Camoro' in flower for a few weeks now and some cantabricus are just starting to open. Timing seems about normal for these here but then I have not grown many hoop-petticoat daffs for several years after losing most of them one disastrous season.

[YT]

Thank you Maggi and Darren I'll post the massonia pic to a suitable thread tomorrow

Here, we had deadly heat and long summer followed by very short autumn, and winter came earlier. So, the autumn and winter flowering bulbs had not enough time to grow after their extended summer dormancy was over.

[fleurbleue]

So nice pictures on your blog, Tatsuo 

[Oron Peri]

Narcissus tazetta winter flowering variety is in bloom at the moment.
Unlike the autumnal form (Oct-Nov) this form is growing in valleys in damp conditions, it thrives in cultivated fields.
These photos are taken few hours ago close to where i live.

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful Oron.

Maybe this thread should be for 2012/2013 Maggi?

Well at last things are beginning to move. Clumps in the garden are showing a couple of inches of growth and the greenhouse stuff is beginning to move too now.

Narcissus romieuxii 'Craigton Clanger'- one that I don't find terribly easy to flower, certainly for the past few years it has broken down into very small non-flowering bulbs. Possibly my fault!

Narcissus 'Camoro' in a 9cm pot and showing it's lack of good light this year.

Narcissus bulbocodium (Moroccan form) x N. bulbocodium nivalis- one of Brian Duncan's crosses.

[Maggi Young]

'Comoro' is  'Camoro'   
Will ask BD what advice he can give you for 'C.Clanger ' - it is such a floriferous wee thing here.

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Maggi.

[Anthony Darby]

I have seedlings of Narcissus tazetta. Time will tell when it flowers here.

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus romieuxii from a generous forum member.

[annew]

AT LAST!!! After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, my new website is finally working.  Please have a look at my narcissus galleries - I hope it works OK for everyone, please let me know if you have problems.
http://www.dryad-home.co.uk

Edit by maggi : please make comments on Anne's new website  here :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9940.0

I'm moving those already made there 

[ian mcenery]

I had this as a seedling of narcissus jeanmonodii.  It is very pretty and a deeper colour than my camera shows

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus romieuxii SF 126/1
Narcissus bulbocodium praecox
Narcissus hedraeanthus

[David Nicholson]

A bit "squinny" this year I'm finding, but welcome all the same:-

Narcissus romieuxii JCA 805Y 'Atlas Gold'
N. 'Nylon Group'
N. jeanmondii

[Gerry Webster]

Very nice David. You're a few days  ahead of me. Here  the permanently grey skies have resulted in very elongated  & floppy scapes.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Gerry. I managed an hour in the garden today before being driven in by rain, and that was the first hour of the New Year so far. Apart from the scent of Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' cheering me up there's very little point in starting anything meaningful outside as the soil is mainly the consistency of porridge. As Ian said in the last bulb log some of the little daffs are having a struggle to break through their spathes, the light levels have been atrocious, and I need to very smartly nip off the heads of any spent flowers before the fungus gets to them. Ah, the joys of gardening!