Back in 2001 I placed pollen of John Hunter’s Emerald Sea onto a flower of N. cavanillesii. Eventually a plant from the cross flowered and then did so for several…
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‘Verdant Sparks’
My stocks of ‘Verdant Sparks’ have multiplied satisfactorily. It was down to only a couple of bulbs a few years ago. Here is the row today with masses of the…
Names of autumn daffodils.
I see that the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families at the Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew now accepts our usage of the names, for both Narcissus miniatus and Narcissus obsoletus. Narcissus…
The Colors of Green Daffodils.
One of the things we have learned after several generations of daffodil breeding with N. viridiflorus in the background is that there can be many shades and colors of green…
Some autumn daffodils currently in bloom.
Here are a series of daffs that are blooming now in my garden. Img 5903 25 This is N. x perezlarae. Img 5900 24 N. obsoletus. Img 5904 23 N.…
Some Narcissus obsoletus hybrids.
The daffodil flag has been flying in our garden for about three weeks now. There have been a number of autumn blooming hybrids in the garden. Here are a few…
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