Category: Conservation

This is about the survival of species in the wild in the face of land conversion.

Still on autumn flowers

This is a paler and perhaps more usual form of N. x alleniae, with one of its parents N. miniatus at the bottom of the picture. In rushy/grassy habitat, near Arcos,  in S. Spain Brian

The little Narcissus that has no corona from southern sunny Spain (& N. Africa)

Another little, 3-4inch high, autumn flowering species photographed in the wild. Some think it should be removed from the genus Narcissus – but it cross breeds with other Narcissi so I hope it will be allowed to remain as a…

Pachybulbos,

All references to the N. pachybolbus brought to England in the years following 1875 (Burbridge &  Baker, p. xv and Curtis) indicate that the  bulbs came from Algeria.  According to the Curtis reference they are definitely not hardy in England. …