Category: Species

Information and photos of wild narcissus species.

Daffodils on Instagram

Hello! For those of you on Instagram and for those of you who enjoy daffodil photos, please check out my PHS Daffodils account, www.instagram.com/phsdaffodils Photos are uploaded (almost) daily of unique varieties spanning the divisions, including my visits to the…

2019 Sale List

The Historic subscribed folks have already gotten this, but here’s our Beinn sloidh order form 2019 small offering for the year. White Nile https://daffseek.org/detail-page/?cultivar=White%20Nile&auto=1 The “famous” Brodie award winner of the 20s & 30s.  Cup tends yellow for various amounts…

2019 PHS Daffodils web store is open!

Greetings!   The 2019 PHS Daffodils web store is now open for the season.  Please have a look at www.phsdaffodils.com.  As ever, all orders will receive generous gratis bulbs—please indicate your preferences, e.g., divisions, color codes, season of bloom, classic,…

N. broussonetii bulb

Narcissus broussonetii bulb

I thought some might enjoy this photo of a Narcissus broussonetii bulb I recently unpotted. It had just two, large, fleshy roots with rough horizontal ridges along the length. I grew it in a pumice-based bonsai medium that it seemed…

20 years wait

Thanks everyone for the photos and reports and congratulations to John Reed. Way back in 1999 some N. broussonetii seed generously sent to me by Harold Koopowitz was sown. Now, after 20 years waiting, it has finally flowered. Either it…

N. tazetta in northern Iran

Last week we were contacted by Mohi Arooni from Northern Iran about N. Tazetta’s that grow everywhere in his region.  Since we traveled to the mountains of Spain and France, searching for species with Brian Duncan, I  have been intrigued …