Here are two tazettas from Manuel Lima and the third is one of my own seedlings. The horizontal image is’ Lima’s Green Joy’, a little narrower in the tepals than ‘Lima’s Green Goddess’ (the vertical picture). Many people prefer ‘Lima’s Green Joy’ to the fuller perianth sibling. I suppose it has a little more grace. Unfortunately ‘Lima’s Green Joy’ is not as productive and produces fewer offsets than its sibling. The third image is quite a large flower as the autumn ones go (73 mm in diameter) and is bred from Hunter’s ‘Emerald Sea’ by ‘Lima’s Green Success’; it carries three florets to the stem and is one of the few from this cross with a flat flower. The seedling has a division 3 flower and a poet in its background but the N. viridiflorus sure dominates for narrow tepals.
I consider daffodils that open before the winter solstice as being Autumn daffodils, so I suppose we are now going to start the Winter daffodil season. In the USA the winter solstice is considered the start of the winter season and not mid-winter.
