Two seedlings from the cross N. romieuxii x 7G-G seedling are now open and these look promising. The few from this cross that flowered earlier were white, but these two both have a decided green caste although quite different shades…
This is the first flower from a new cross now in bloom. A cream colored N. romieuxii was crossed with pollen from a 7G-G seedling. Normally the 7G-G flowers in November, but N. romieuxii always flowers later in the winter.…
Earlier on in October I posted a picture of the seedling from N. cavanillesii x Emerald Sea. Brian Duncan suggested pollinating it. While I found this flower intriguing I had always assumed that it was sterile and had never thought…
Four years ago in the autumn I flowered a bulb of ‘Max’s Poet’ that was being turned around from New Zealand. It coincided with the autumn tazetta N. obsoletus in my garden. Naturally I could not resist trying to make…
Narcissus x perezlarae occurs as the natural wild hybrid between N. cavanillesii and N. miniatus. Several years ago Theo Sanders sent me a large shipment of bulbs of hybrids between the autumn species. They did not come up the first…
I have been line breeding N. miniatus through several generations trying to make ever more rounded flowers. They are just starting to bloom now. When they appear I know that the daffodil season has started. There should be even rounder…