[anita]

Hi, Despite the fact that the temperature is about to hit 41C in the next few days... my bulbs have decided that it's autumn in Adelaide.
I was stunned to spot a Narcissus serotinus bravely blooming as a did my afterwork wander around the garden. Apologies for the picture quality, dusk had started to fall.
It's a little beauty.. with a lovely scent. Last year I collected seed which I planted within minutes of harvest and had seedlings growing all through autumn and winter. I repotted in early January and there were about 20 tiny little bulbs. Hopefully in a few years time with a little diligence I'll have a little swarm of these delightful blooms.. I dream of enough that the scent hits me so that I don't have to get on hands and knees to sniff the scent!

[Fermi]

Anita,
ours didn't flower this year and when I unpotted them I found most had been decimated by mealy bug!
It'll take a year or two to get them back to flowering size.
Narcissus viridiflorus in the garden are now in flower,
cheers
fermi

[Alisdair]

Wonderful pictures of that legendary green narcissus, Fermi: thanks!

[Fermi]

The hoop petticoat daffs are usually the first of the "spring" ones, usually startring before the winter gets going and continuing on into the true spring.
Here are some that appear to be self-sown hybrids near their parents which haven't come into bloom yet,
cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

Other types of daffs are now flowering in our garden - a few weeks before it's officially spring here
3 N. cyclamineus hybrid from Keira Bulbs in Canberra:
Narc.KB-6YOR-1-03;
'PapaSnoz';
Narc.KB-6-W-P-2-08
A tazetta hybrid from Trevanion Bulbs in Canberra:
Narc.09-18T(First Stanza x unknown )
And finally one of our own seedlings:
Narc.(JinglexSwagger)x N.cyclamineus.
cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

2 more from Keira Bulbs,

Narc.KB-M-10-2000, pale yellow petals and a deeper trumpet;
'Turland's Gold;

From Trevanion, a Narcissus fernandesii x N. viridiflorus hybrid

cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

Here are a few late flowering forms in our garden now:
'Sparkling Tarts' - a hybrid between a tazetta 'Matador and a N. jonquilla,
'Lemon Drops'
'La Belle'
cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

Daffodils are in flower now in the Southern Hemisphere!
I posted a pic of this daffodil from Lawrence Trevanion in 2014 as 07-03-MJ ('Hillstar' x 'Emerald Sea'); Lawrence has since named it and it is now called 'Viristar' to note its N. viridiflorus heritage,
cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

More hoop petticoat Daffodils:
1) Narcissus cantabricus grown from seed (from Rafa in 2009)
2) seedling from near Narcissus 'Tarlatan' and 'Tiffany'
3) seedling from near N. 'Jessamy'
4) N. 'Ben Bler'
5) seedling near N. 'Fyno'
cheers
fermi

[Umbrian]

Beautiful - thank you for sharing.

[Fermi]

You're welcome!
Here are a couple of hybrid tazettas:
Taztep, raised by Lawrence Trevanion in Canberra;
a unnamed (well, it was named but I lost it) 8 W-Y hybrid,
cheers
fermi

[Alisdair]

Lovely full perianth in that lost-label one, Fermi!

[Fermi]

Lovely full perianth in that lost-label one, Fermi!

Yes, it was from Ian Dyson who was an excellent breeder who passed away unexpectedly last year.
I'm not sure if it is his own breeding but I hope I can use it for some crosses (when I get a chance!)
cheers
fermi

[Caroline]

I have no idea how this lone ranger got into what is supposed to be a tub full of tulips and pansies - a mistake by the bulb supplier, I guess, and not picked up by me when I planted the tulips.  But at least the narcissus had the grace to be the right colour to harmonise with the pansies, and will be well over by the time the tulips flower.

[Fermi]

Hi Caroline,
It's an early one, too! At least you can replant it elsewhere when you are re-potting

Here are a few "hoops" from Lawrence Trevanion:
Gefk 10YW
Untshen 10WW
Nug Natch 10YW
Apparently he named them after sounds his children made when they were babies!
cheers
fermi