These narcissi were in a dried out bowl in the house when we moved here in the summer of 1992. I thought they'd had it but they grew and flowered and multiplied.
I have no idea of the variety, can anyone name them?
Thanks all. Ice Follies was quite a popular one, maybe still is. I doubt if it's anything unusual. I'll have a look at the 2 you mention fidget.
Well, not many pics of Sparnon and I don't think it's Irish Minstrel, that seems to have a 'sharper' appearance if that makes sense.Spring Dawn the same. May well be Ice Follies. So many, so similar
I've started to get really into narcissi in the last few years. When we moved here there was a meadow area planted with hundreds of daffs, I think she said they were Golden Harvest, or maybe King Alfred. Can't fault them on performance, they've been going for 30 years on zero maintenance (unless you count NOT cutting the grass!). But they were so yellow
So I added the Ice Follies and Mount Hood, a lovely, solid, white one and also some Pheasant's eye for later flowering and the scent. Though even the ordinary ones smell wonderful en masse on a sunny day, you get wafts of perfume as you walk through them.
I've tried a number of others and really like some of them. Rapture is a small lemony yellow one with a very long trumpet and reflexed petals, there's Thalia and Pueblo for creamy whites, Topolino, another white /yellow one, Bellsong, a delectable white with a pale apricot pink cup and Babymoon, a jonquil type with very small yellow flowers and the sweetest scent. And I still love old Cheerfulness and Cragside or Geranium for a bit more colour.
Now it takes me almost as long to choose the daffs as the tulips
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They look like my Ice Follies, but they're not out yet so I can't post a pic. I've got overall views from other years but no close ups that I recall.
Could be daffodil Sparnon
Or Irish Minstrel
Thanks all. Ice Follies was quite a popular one, maybe still is. I doubt if it's anything unusual. I'll have a look at the 2 you mention fidget.
Well, not many pics of Sparnon and I don't think it's Irish Minstrel, that seems to have a 'sharper' appearance if that makes sense.Spring Dawn the same. May well be Ice Follies. So many, so similar
In the sticks near Peterborough
Very pretty whatever they are
I agree, very pretty. I love the pale yellow delicate ones like this.
I like them. I think I'd like some more.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have some Ice Follies and they look like that.
I've started to get really into narcissi in the last few years. When we moved here there was a meadow area planted with hundreds of daffs, I think she said they were Golden Harvest, or maybe King Alfred. Can't fault them on performance, they've been going for 30 years on zero maintenance (unless you count NOT cutting the grass!). But they were so yellow
So I added the Ice Follies and Mount Hood, a lovely, solid, white one and also some Pheasant's eye for later flowering and the scent. Though even the ordinary ones smell wonderful en masse on a sunny day, you get wafts of perfume as you walk through them.
I've tried a number of others and really like some of them. Rapture is a small lemony yellow one with a very long trumpet and reflexed petals, there's Thalia and Pueblo for creamy whites, Topolino, another white /yellow one, Bellsong, a delectable white with a pale apricot pink cup and Babymoon, a jonquil type with very small yellow flowers and the sweetest scent. And I still love old Cheerfulness and Cragside or Geranium for a bit more colour.
Now it takes me almost as long to choose the daffs as the tulips