Re: A shameless plug for daffodils
michael larmer wrote:
> I live in Sacramento, California, so a great many of the larger, showier
> varieties so popular with true affecianados (members of the cult of the
> daffodil) don't do all that well for me. It gets so damn hot here in the
> central valley that many of the flowers bred over the years since 1874 (when
> Peter Barr got the ball rolling) in England and Holland just kind of linger
> and fade away after a few years in
> the sun. Down here I stay away from the Trumpets and Poeticus sorts
> and try to stick with those that have Narcissus tazetta or
> N.jonquilla in their genetic makeup. I do grow a multitude of the
> other sorts up in the foothills, where the summers are about a month
> shorter, a little cooler, and a lot shadier (more trees).
Hi Michael
I wonder if you have thought of trying any of the hoop petticoat group
of daffodils, which, coming as the majority do from Southern Spain or
North Africa, seem to me a supremely Mediterranean daffodil group which
should have no trouble coping with the heat.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
