Finally all the seedlings have been planted.
A few interesting things flowered over the Autumn. Definite 8O-O’s are emerging from the elegans hybrids and good form and clean whites are emerging from elegans x Soleil D’Or (First Stanza).
Right now a nice dwarf seedling 09_30T is flowering and for the curious, a tazetta x Erlicheer, probably diploid (21) that may be faintly fertile.
The bulbocodiums started in April.
Right now viridiflorus hybrids are flowering: Viriquilla x Virivest, and fernandesii x viridiflorus.
Some nice early jonquilla are flowering at the house. Early and consistent watering seems to be the key.
Few frosts have meant the paperwhites have managed to strut their stuff. 99/8W has pachybolbus as a grandparent. 14/7W is a giant from Bill Welch – it has been flowering for years but only this year has it managed to impress.
Am not sure how big a bulbocodium has to be to be considered big but this one probably fits the bill.
And lastly the question of complex coronas. I have seen coronal spurs in main division flowers and jonquillas. Bill Welch’s frilly Autumn Colors have shown that they are capable of producing a new form that promises to be quite attractive.
It seems that this tendency is also present in a number of the bulbocodiums (including in some of the few progeny of Oidle Loidle).
