JUlia Jane Daffodils
Jane McGary (Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:40:30 PDT)
I bought what was said to be the original clone Narcissus romieuxii
'Julia Jane' from England many years ago, and still have it. Several
years later I grew a group of N. romieuxii from another Archibald
collection, which I also still have, and I see little or no difference
between the named clone and the group of wild seedlings. Probably they
were from the same population. I suspect the bulbs sold as 'Julia Jane'
these days are seedlings, since it comes very true from seed. Both forms
I have are extremely vigorous in my bulb house, where they sometimes
hybridize with the earlier-flowering N. cantabricus, resulting in
somewhat taller stems and cream-colored flowers. I'll be donating a lot
of bulbs of these to the BX this summer, as they have spread to take up
far too much room in the raised bed (under a roof) where they grow with
many other plants. I have tried both species mentioned outdoors under a
large Douglas fir, where they survive and flower, but the flowers are
usually destroyed either by the rain or by slugs.
I also have a lot of Narcissus in the same section (Bulbocodium) grown
over the years from the stock of Michael Salmon, who subscribed to the
"splitting" tendency in naming them. I have given up identifying them
according to one or the other school of thought, but they are all
beautiful. The latest to flower are Narcissus bulbocodium itself; the
most vigorous form I have is from seed collected in the Atlas Mountains.
N. bulbocodium ssp. praecox lives up to its name, however, flowering
with N. cantabricus in January. N. bulbocodium ssp. (?) citrinus is just
opening now.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
On 3/10/2020 1:57 PM, Sabine Kämpfe wrote:
Hello,
I live in Germany, and I ordered bulbs in June or July. The bulbs were
delivered in September. There are several Dutch bulb growers and bulb
traders who sell them. I don't know if they ship to the U.S., but inside
Europe it shoudn' t be a problem. It is so tiny and tender and it is one
of my favorite daffodils . Many visitors of my garden (even my husband)
can't believe that this is a daffodil because it looks so different to
the other kinds of narcissus which are usually grown in Germany - mostly
Division 1 or 2 (the big ones).
Sabine
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