Hill View Rare Plants

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

bulbocodium ssp obesus This is the Farrer Medal form of this very distinct Hoop Petticoat obtained from Rannweig Wallis in Wales. Dark leaves and golden yellow, horizontal flowers. A lovely fat chap ! FS/1st $4.00 or 3 for $10.00

bulbocodium ssp serotinus For those who want a really reliable flowerer no matter the conditions - this is it. Late blooming, easy going crinoline lady with very large deep yellow hoop petticoats. FS $2.50 or 3 for $7.00

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

"Little Beauty" Dwarf trumpet daffodil to 15cm flowering in early spring, creamy-white petals and contrasting yellow corona. FS/1st $4.00

"Mite" Large.flowered cyclamineus hybrid for late winter with beautifully reflexed petals of clear yellow on 15cm stems. Blooms hold for ages. Rare offering FS/1st $8.00

"Mitzy" An elegant cyclamineus hybrid bred by Alec Gray 1965. Long corona opens pale yellow and sharply reflexing petals are white, as the flower matures the final effect is pure white. A dainty and refined demeanour. Limit of 1 per customer. FS/1st $15.00

nevadensis Little known and very local wild trumpet daffodil bearing white and pale yellow, bicoloured flowers on 30cm stems. Limit of one per customer. FS/1st $7.00

"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 $3.50 or 3 for $7.00

poeticus Known as the Poets Daffodil, this species is linked to the classical world. Extremely fragrant, strongly recurved, pure white petals with a yellow corona that has a striking red edge. FS/1st $3.50 or 3 for $7.00

poeticus flora plena Fully double, "gardenia-like" blooms of glistening-white, without the red rim around the shallow corona. Certainly a much easier plant to flower than of the other doubles. FS/1st $7.00

romieuxii "Julia Jane" An exceptional form collected at the Cedars of Lebanon by the late Jim Archibald, collection no. 805. Very widely flaring soft lemon trumpets that flatten and roll back as the flower matures, i.e. petunioide. Vegetatively propagated on from the original bulb. FS/1st $10.00

"Slipp'ry" An early white Division 6 from Glenbrook Bulb Farm with classic backswept petals. Long, smooth crimped corona starting lemon and maturing white. Does well for a difficult colour combination in this particular class and can produce very good show blooms. FS/1st $10.00

"Smarple" Robust hoop-petticoat with strong winter blooms that open soft lemon and turning creamy-white. Another of Glenbrook's mini-miracles with an outstanding show record including a Gold Ribbon at the USA National Show In 2003. FS/1st $5.00

waiteri One of the most beautiful of all the wild miniature daffodils from high in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Crystalline-white single stars on grayish-blue stems. Likes a cool dormancy and protect from slugs. Rare offering FS/1st $12.00

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