Winter in the Algarve
Jane McGary via pbs (Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:50:35 PST)

Thanks to Uli for these lovely images! Here in the Pacific Northwest the
drought has been ended this winter, but as he writes, the price of that
is gray skies.

The photos of Narcissus papyraceus in a coastal marsh were especially
interesting. I was surprised to see the related Narcissus tazetta in a
similar situation in nature, in a site that I'm sure never dries out. I
haven't tried these species in the open garden, but their many hybrids
certainly do well there. The fragrance of N. papyraceus ("paperwhites"),
as Uli remarked, is pleasant to some but not all people. Different
commercial paperwhites strains have different fragrances, and to me some
are less pleasant than others. Among species, Narcissus jonquilla seems
most pleasantly scented; I'm not sure if it's the "wild narcissus" used
in perfumery. Probably some of these flowers' scents change as the
flowers age, as is the case with hyacinths, which are hard to tolerate
indoors after a day or two.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 2/7/2022 2:09 AM, Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs wrote:

Dear All,

For those of you who want to start the winter blues I have an instant remedy. Just look at the bright blue sky on some of the pictures. The price for that is…… we are desperate for rain.
I had a short excursion to one of my favorite places in the Algarve, it is the delta of a small river with a tidal swamp, every year there is a mass flowering of the native Narcissus papyraceus. It is very scented but the scent is not to everybody’s liking.

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