The first is what I had named as Leenan NVC #1, The second one (spider type blooms) is one Dr. John Reed sent me as Manuel Lima # 2
A couple of fall bloomers for the Holidays
Category: Autumn Blooming Daffodils
Daffodils that normally bloom in the Autumn.
A few photos of ‘Lima’s Green Road’ 12G-G in bloom for Thanksgiving.
I’m thankful for all my daffodil friends from far and wide and for the beautiful flowers we share!
New seedlings
These five years old, two very little seedlings of N. assoanus x N. elegans/N. obsoletus are flowering. Perhaps next year they shall have more than one flower per stem. Theo
Tazettas that don’t go dormant -?
All, Some years I’ve observed true tazettas (not poetaz) that do not go fully dormant for months after their companions are long, long gone. I think they are always bicolors – ‘Early Pearl’, maybe Nx italicus, and others, I’ve never…
Possibility of intergeneric hybrids.
Reading about ×Howardara (a complex trigeneric hybrid involving species from Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, and Zephyranthes), as well as other intergeneric hybrids from the Amaryllidaceae, such as ×Amarcrinum, I was wondering about the possibility of intergeneric hybrids involving Narcissus. Has anyone tried this…
Some breeding/fertility questions
I have a lot of tazettas blooming now and was looking through the pollen I collected last year to see what I might use for breeding. ‘Aspasia’ is my latest-blooming daffodil and I saved a lot if its pollen. When…