The green daffodils are later this year than usual. No doubt the delay is due to warm autumn and late start to the rains. At least we had over two inches of rain last week and everything is starting to…
Green Autumn Daffodils
Author: Harold Koopowitz, California
Southern Calif
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Autumn tazettas
Mary Lou Gripshover wanted me to explain about using the name N. obsoletus instead of N. elegans, and what was N. x obsoletus? Here is my response. As I understand it N. x obsoletus was thought by Maire to be…
More on autumn flowers
The color on the all white clone of N. obsoletus appears to have clarified. Compare the picture posted a few days ago with that from this morning. …
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…