NARCISSUS

Most of the bulbs offered here are wild daffodils from Spain, Portugal and North Africa. A good many are miniatures, fully hardy and free flowering making them great subjects for the rock garden or pot culture. These are easy plants for anywhere around southern Australia.

albidus ssp albidus One of the true aristocrats of the hoop-petticoats and this is the best form. Large ice-white, slightly flaring, conical flowers on tall stems early in June. Spicy scent and longlasting flowers. FS/1st $5.00

"Ben'Blur" (Spoirot x N. romieuxii Julia Jane) Glenbrook's most recent hoop-petticoat introduction and the one with the biggest wrap, "this is the best hoop-petticoat we have raised at Glenbrook (and that's saying something)." We don't think we need add any more. Limit of one per customer FS/1st $16.00

bulbocodium ssp nivalis Brilliant yellow, narrow, upward-facing flowers over glossy green, strap-like foliage in late winter. A snow-melt plant from the High Atlas Mt. in Morocco but appears equally at home in suburban Hobart. Only a few to go. FS/1st $4.00

bulbocodium ssp obesus This is the Farrer Medal form of this very distinct Hoop Petticoat obtained from Rannweig Wallis in Wales. Dark leaves and rich soft-yellow flowers with large satisfyingly obese horizontal flowers, a lovely fat chap !! Very Few FS/1st $6.00

bulbocodium ssp praecox var paucinervis One of the earliest bulbocodiums to flower. A fine robust race bearing big soft-yellow flowers with narrower, more funnel shaped trumpets than similarly coloured N. romieuxii forms. One of the very earliest of the Hoops. FS/1st $ 4.00

bulbocodium ssp serotinus For those who want a really reliable flowerer in any conditions this is it. Late blooming, easy going crinoline lad y with very large deep yellow hoop petticoats. FS $2.50

cantabricus ssp cantabricus Glistening white hoop petticoats that flower usually a little later than N. cant. ssp foliosus though often a little larger and a more reliable flowerer. FS/1st $2.00 or 2 for $3.00

cyclamineus The most sought after of all the wild daffodils and like no other. Parent of a multitude of larger hybrids but the wild plant is still unrivalled. Irresistible, brilliant yellow, long, narrow, pendent, trumpets with fully reflexed petals. Likes it cool & moist. FS/1st $8.00

“Elka” Another tiny gem from Alec Gray with a pale lemon, frilly-edged trumpet and milk-white petals on 15cm stem in early spring. Flower matures to white - an exquisite “work of art”. Limit of 1 per customer FS/1st $10.00

"Ferdie" Tiny reflexing petals and tubular trumpet this all-yellow Glenbook miniature is a multiple championship winner that blooms mid to late winter. Bred N. rupicola x N. cyclamineus this is further testament to the genius of Rod Barwick. Few to go FS/1st $12.00

"Hawera" (Thompson, N.Z.) Excellent miniature triandrus bearing 4 or 5 exquisite pale nodding bells with swept back petals mid to late season. Tough, adaptable and great in pots - one of the best. $6.00

henriquesii Has been listed as a variety of N. jonquila but now thought to be more closely alligned with N. fernandesii. A fine tallish jonquil with a deep non-crinkly cup and narrower petals than N. jonquilla. FS/1st $ 4.00

jonquilla An excellent jonquil with richly perfumed umbels of golden yellow, shallow-cupped flowers on tall rush-like stems in mid season. FS/1st $4.00

“Mitimoto” (N. bulbocodium conspicuus x “Nylon”) Another outstanding Glenbrook Hoop Petticoat. Bright lemon-yellow, widely cupped, corona and narrow, white, petals. Gold Medal at the 2003 USA National Championships and a swag of local awards. Limit of 1 per customer FS/1st $6.00

“Nylon” (N. cantabricus ssp folious x N. bulbocodium? conspicuus) A very large and reliably flowering creamish hybrid bred by Douglas Blanchard. One of the legends that has stood the test of time and a must in the winter garden. FS $3.00 or 3 for $8.00

poeticus flora plena This is a different plant to the selection that we have previously offered. Bears fully double, “gardenia-like” blooms of glistening-white, but without the red rim on the disc-shaped corona. A touch of mystery surrounds its origins but certainly a much easier plant to flower than the other doubles. FS/1st $7.00

romieuxii “Joy Bishop” Collected at the Cedars of Lebanon by Jim Archibald along with “Julia Jane”. This clone has lemon yellow flowers with a 6 lobed corona. Vegetatively propagated on from the original bulb. FS/1st $6.00

romieuxii var rifanus JWB 89-23 Authentic material collected in the Rif Mts., Morocco. Pale-lemon hoops with a foreshortened corona, which reveals a very much-exerted style and anthers. FS/1st $ 6.00

scaberulus One of the rarest daffodils found only in the Mondego Valley, Portugal and rarely listed. Bears 1 to 3 small, deep yellow, slightly reflexed blooms in mid winter. First time offer. Limit of one per customer FS/1st $12.00

"Spoirot" (Glenbrook, Tas.) Very large and robust hoop petticoat with many championships to its credit, including the U.S. National Show Champion, 1995. Close to "Nylon" in breeding and also in its smooth cream flowers but they are earlier and more flaring. FS/1st $6.00

"Xit" Broad, slightly reflexed, glistening white petals with small disc-shaped corona, touched with pale lemony green in the throat. In effect a larger, much Improved N. waiteri, of which it is a hybrid. FS/1st $5.00