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…
It is fertile!
Category: Autumn Blooming Daffodils
Daffodils that normally bloom in the Autumn.
Recent autumn blooms
Here are the most recent autumn bloomers, most of these are autumn colors. Many thanks to Bill Welch and Bob Spotts who provided bulbs.
An Autumn Poetaz.
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…
N. x perezlarae
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…
Narcissus miniatus
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…
Narcissus deficiens?
The name N. deficiens is sometimes used for N. miniatus. It is derived from an old description of a Narcissus that flowered in cultivation that did not have a corona but instead a brown smudge at the edge of the…