Category: Autumn Blooming Daffodils

Daffodils that normally bloom in the Autumn.

Rebloom in a paperwhite

A question put on Daffnet from Benjamin Whitacre about repeat flowering daffodils led to an interesting private correspondence. I have tried here to organise and add to my thoughts and observations from that exchange. It is not uncommon for daffodils…

N. broussonetii bulb

Narcissus broussonetii bulb

I thought some might enjoy this photo of a Narcissus broussonetii bulb I recently unpotted. It had just two, large, fleshy roots with rough horizontal ridges along the length. I grew it in a pumice-based bonsai medium that it seemed…

20 years wait

Thanks everyone for the photos and reports and congratulations to John Reed. Way back in 1999 some N. broussonetii seed generously sent to me by Harold Koopowitz was sown. Now, after 20 years waiting, it has finally flowered. Either it…

A View of the Northern California Daffodil Society’s 2019 March Season

Our Bay Area 2018/2019 Fall weather was exceptionally mild – seemingly there was not enough chill to provide that needed for cultivars’ development and bloom for shows. Until late-January! The lack of overnight chill gave my viridiflorus-infused seedlings the opportunity…

records of first bloom

Good morning There seems to be a study starting at NC State University on people keeping records about first bloom. Originally I had responded and directed her to our FaceBook page, DaffSeek which records season of bloom and of course…