Like Carlos, I am interested mostly in wild taxa and their natural hybrids. I grow Narcissus from wild-collected seed whenever I can get it. Some in my collection were sown in the 1990s. I am sometimes at a loss to know how to name them, owing to the fact that there are competing sets of nomenclature, with the usual divide between "lumpers" and "splitters," as well as disagreement on the affinities among different wild populations. I just keep the identifications under which I got the seed, unless I can clearly tell that it's wrong by all accounts. I live in the maritime Pacific Northwest in the Portland, Oregon, area, which is very good for growing almost all kinds of Narcissus in the open garden. Only the fall- and midwinter-flowering ones have to be kept under cover. It's cold enough in the winter to suit species from higher elevations, and dry enough in summer to please Mediterranean plants in general. I've moved some of the larger, more prolific species into the garden in separate areas. We've just had a terrible hot, dry week or so, and the flowers have all suffered, but there are still some nice groups of Narcissus carrying on. Narcissus poeticus is one of the later species. There are good groups of Narcissus jonquilla and species related to it, such as N. cordubensis and N. fernandesii, and I confess I can't really tell them apart except perhaps on the basis of the foliage. In a raised bed and a bulb lawn, the small species N. rupicola and N. calcicola flourish. N. triandrus grows in several sites but I think it's best on a cool rock garden. I also have a lot of commercial hybrid daffodils in a strip along the roadside. They make a useful display and source of cutflowers, and my theory is that they will decoy the bulb fly away from the precious species. I haven't seen any signs of virus in these purchased bulbs, but in a former garden I once received some bulbs of 'Quail' that were clearly virus-infected. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 4/22/2021 5:25 AM, Carlos JimĂ©nez via pbs wrote: > Hi, me. Mostly interested on wild taxa and hybrids. > > Carlos > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>