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Old 30-12-2008, 10:10 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dave Poole Dave Poole is offline
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Default Daffs are out

There's a garden half a mile up the road at Babbacombe that is a mass
of jonquil type Narcissi and relatively dwarf, true pseudonarcissus-
like dafs. I drove past just before Christmas and the colour was
extremely cheering on such a dull day.

I had a peek into the leaf axils of the arum (Zantedeschia) clumps
here and there are flower buds just showing. Due to their position
and the soil, (full sun, nearly bone dry in summer, sopping wet in
winter), the Zantedeschias tend to behave as they would in S. Africa:
dying down by July, re-emerging in late autumn and growing through the
winter. Flowering usually starts in Feb/March, continuing through to
early summer.

Sorry, I digress, never having held any great attraction to Daffodils
and Narcissi, I've not bothered to remember varietal names and tend to
lump them into approximate groups. I recognise 'February Gold', 'Ice
Follies', 'Cheerfulness', Dutchmaster and a few others, but they are a
tad fleeting (albeit very welcome to see) for me to get wholly
enthusiastic.