Author: David Adams

Bambi

David Bell was well known for the advances he made in yellow/pink cultivars. For many Hicol was a parent. Hicol was not a great flower but he recognized its breeding potential. Last week I posted photo of a lovely little…

Seedlings

Hi Folks, Just to share a few seedlings that I’m pretty happy with. These are a selection of seedlings from Snipe x N cyclamineus. There are from 3 to 7 flowers on each clone this year and some which were…

Quandary

Hi Folks, I have a quandary which those of you familiar with species narcissus in the wild may be able to help me solve. Many of you are aware of my naturalised patch of species N cyclamineus. I used to…

N zaianicus

Tonight I wanted to check the correct identity of what I grow as N romieuxii var albidus var zaianicus. There are three photos on Daffseek. Allowing for variation of the species I cannot see any similarity in the photos shown. Would…

In Flower This Week

The pot of romieuxii has probably reached it’s best. The earliest blooms have lasted nearly two weeks. The colour is most accurate in this photo Wilfred Hall’s ‘Beesknees’ is a lovely miniature tazetta. Sadly it flowers too early for our…

N romieuxii

This pot just keeps getting more lovely every day. Its a shame that it flowers at a time of the year when the only ones we can share it with are those who visit our home. Its also a shame…