Jane: We grow Narcissus romieuxii outdoors and love it in the garden. Rain and snow causes the flowers to droop, but they pop back quickly after the precipitation has finished, since we do have sun in the winter. Our oldest clumps have been in the ground since 2003. Here are three image from our garden http://plantdelights.com/gallery/Misc/… dus_v_zanicus_in_snow http://plantdelights.com/gallery/Misc/… dus_v_Zanicus_white_flower2 http://plantdelights.com/gallery/Misc/… euxii Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jane McGary Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:22 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Narcissus romieuxii Diane in British Columbia wrote, >Wonderful! Prior to this, I've only seen pictures of them in pots in >the U.K.. I'm so pleased to see them growing so well outside. That's >where my seedlings will go. It's somewhat wetter in winter where I live in Oregon, but I find that Narcissus romieuxii is not a good choice for outdoor planting because the flowers (which are delicate in texture, and upfacing) get ruined by the rain. I've also grown N. cantabricus outdoors, with the same results. They look nicer under the cover of the unheated bulb frames, which are full of flowers right now from narcissus of this group. They hybridize freely, so I don't send the seeds to exchanges, but they drop and are distributed around between the pots and many attractive forms appear. A couple of years ago Walter Blom of Albany, Oregon, a retired bulb grower, showed me his selections and hybrids involving N. cantabricus and N. romieuxii and shared a couple of named ones with me. They're quite vigorous. He grows them in raised frames ("alpine frames") that can be covered against excessive wet. Many other small narcissus are coming into flower now, and a few, such as N. hedraeanthus, are already done. In the garden only N. obvallaris (the "English daffodil") is open, and also the surprisingly adaptable N. jacetanus, a short-growing trumpet species of which I placed a few in the rock garden several years ago. The latter is, I understand, very restricted in distribution and habitat, but it is a vigorous plant here. I grew it from wild-collected seed many years ago. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA