I will send this as two emails so as not to overburden some systems. The first two are a batch of N. elegans -seed grown these are flowering for the third time. the best of the line bred N. miniatus.…
Flowering today
Category: Species
Information and photos of wild narcissus species.
Miniatures Symposium at Nashville
Daffodil Friends, The Miniatures Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee this past Saturday was both exceptionally informative and pleasingly entertaining. My sincere thanks to Becky Fox Matthews, Kathy Welsh, and Harold Koopowitz who made it happen. Of course, kudos must go to…
P. maritimum
Attached a photo, taken on 2006-07-31, of P. maritimum growing in a very well drained soil in a pot in my garden. In Italy it is still abundant along the coasts of Southern Italy and in Liguria. The bulbs look very much…
Beach Grower- more information
Here’s some very detailed information for those who are interested. Taken from Wikipedia: Pancratium maritimum, or sea daffodil, is a species of Amaryllidaceae native to the Mediterranean region and south-western Europe. That plant can also be seen on the south…
Fotos from Spain 16
Yesterday I saw a population of N.miniatus near Benalupe with three to five seed pods per stem. Only very few daffodils were still flowering. The plants of the preceding pictures had in most cases one flower per stem. Theo
Fotos from Spain 12
In the mentioned area with the three autumn flowering species there grow many N. x alleniae, a natural cross of N. miniatus x N. viridiflorus. The colour of the perianth is often a light green-yellow. The vitality and bulb production…