If you go out into the fields or flower beds after dark you will sometimes see hundreds of not thousands of moths working over the blooms on the daffodils. During a mild spring night with warmer weather, clear night sky…
Category: Species
Information and photos of wild narcissus species.
Hybridizing
A Beginning in Hybridizing The year 2017 was a successful year in my producing of daffodil seed from many of my crosses but not all. Probably the words that I say in the following will be laughable to the experienced…
New tetraploid Narcissus cordubensis/fernandesii
The diploid N. jonquilla cordubensis of the picture has been transformed to two tetraploid plants. This is to be seen in the photos of the sprouting pollen: The tetraploid plants have bigger pollen grains and pollen tubes with greater diameter.…
Ngaire Rogers
Hi Folks, Last year we had a vigorous discussion regarding the twelve petalled cultivar ‘Ngaire Rogers.’ Some would not even consider it a legitimate daffodil. Malcolm Lind has shared these photos with me. I would suggest that the nay sayers…
Tête à Tête in the Sierra de las Nieves
In March I made a trip to Spain looking for narcissus species. I saw many different sites and visited also the Sierra de las Nieves near Ronda, where in different kown places Narcissus hispanicus and Narcissus assoanus grow. There…
Autumn 17#4
Hi Christiaan, I am delighted by your seedlings, particularly if they are happy in your impossible conditions. The season progresses here with the first viridiflorus hybrid flowering. Bill Welch’s earliest Autumn Colors (09_13T) is flowering as are a couple of…