Year: 2014

More Autumn daffodils

Narcissus obsoletus (syn. Narcissus elegans) is a Tazetta from Morocco, Southern Spain and Italy. It has a corona that opens olive green and then matures to a sunfast deep orange. I think it is the source of orange for old…

In bloom today

We actually received a third of an inch of rain last week. I hope that is not all the rain for the year. We are in a drought situation in Southern California but the autumn daffs responded and here are…

N. cavanillesii x Emerald Sea

This is  a five years old seedling of N. cavanillesii x Emerald Sea flowering for the first time. After opening the flower is yellow, later the colour  changes to white yellow. The plant has  two chromosome sets from N. cavanillesii,…