A daffodil question for Bill
- Subject: A daffodil question for Bill
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:24:41 EDT
Bill,
I know you have been waiting for one of us to give you a daffie question and
here is one.
I have some very small flowered daffodils growing in a rock garden. They are
growing in virtually no soil in some gritty mess left over from a dwarf
kalmia and they are thriving. The bulbs, if there are some, are buried all
over the rocks.
I looked over my notes to see what I might have bought or been given for that
rocky spot and I think I bought eight triandus 'Hawera' in 1997. I have an
old package in the shameful disorderly file of purchased plants kept in the
garden house.
I can trade half of these for some others if I can be pretty sure what they
are, rocky people are very picky about labels.
The plants have been blooming here in zone 4 New York for many weeks and are
still in very good condition despite three days of constant rain. The stem
is wiry, hollow I think, and carries two, three or four flowers. Flowers
yellow all parts same yellow, petal curved backward. The foliage is stiff
and curved all the length of the leaf. The plants have multiplied and there
are many in each clump now plus many flowers in each clump.
All of the very small daffodils usually die out but these are doing very
well. If I started with eight bulbs, I must have hundreds now five years
later.
The package, an import, says triandus, grown from cultivated stock. My
Rix/Philllips guide spells it triandrus and describes it as a 1930's New
Zealand hybrid.
Is 'Hawera' or hawera or whatever a hybrid and if this sounds like hawera
would this plant grow and increase well in this cold zone if from New Zealand?
The package instructions are in Spanish so I'm not doing well there. The
grower was W. R. Vanderschoot.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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