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Last post 23-05-2008 11:33 AM by bogweevil. 13 replies.
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I purchased some Summer flowering Narcissi (Grand Soleil d'Or & Erlicheer) and I am thrilled with them. I'm told that they bloom throughout the summer but what I'm not sure about is whether I should deadhead them or if new blooms will develop without deadheading.
Does anyone have any experience of these bulbs?
Many thanks
Yve
These are the narcissi that don't need to experience winter cold to flower (almost all do) and if suitably heat and ethylene pre-treated before sale flower a certain number of weeks after planting. Most people know these cold-independant narcissi as the highly scented potted Paper White narcissi sold before Christmas. I don't think they will flower all summer - one blooming period of a week or two seems more likely whether you dead-head or not, but I would be interested to know if there are any subsequent flushes of flowers.
You can get proper daffodils to flower in summer, or at least for Chelsea flower show, by dint of cold-storing the bulbs, which to my mind results in something that is deeply odd.
Boggy
hi there! little off the subject of narcissi. dont you just hate it when people mess with the fundamentals of a plant? we have a certain south african horti, whol will remain unnamed.. who has got agapanthus to flower now[ they generally flower in spring-summer in sa],there's a pink aloe around aswell, really dont get me started! enjoy your summer, i think we're in for a good wet winter down here! helen
Hello Helen in South africa, I have a strong dislike of winter but we have to put up with it. i think people try to manipulate plants to flower out of sync for exhibition purposes, so that Chelsea and the like will have a good display, but you do have a nice climate in your part of the world, do you like in the city district or out in the countryside?
No, I don't hate it at all - after all it is improving on nature.
as in gilding the lily, Boggy?
Sometimes there are improvements, but sometimes it's just messing about with things in the hope of making some cash. We don't need every flower to be available in every colour and to flower in every season ...
I'm with you, Phot's, there is too much money-chasing.
It's the same thing as having to have EVERY fruit and veggie available in the shops all the time.
But at what a cost - tasteless, hard, nasty strawberry-shaped fruits, whose flavour bears no relation to a proper strawberry in its season; banana-like objects without a skin flaw, but without a taste or smell either; items which resemble a tomato from a distance, but whose taste and texture is more akin to a wet golf ball.
And accompanying this loss of taste and flavour is the loss of the small excitement of seeing fresh new fruits and veggies arrive in their season. All in the name of Mammon !
You realise of course that people in the sixteenth century said the same thing about the new-fangled orange carrots replacing proper carrot colours like purple, yellow and white.
Ha Ha Boggy I bet that you were one of them
digger,
Hardly the same thing or the same scale Boggy, even supposing it's true !
I have nothing against nature and it is fine in its place, but in many ways it is unsatisfactory and we need something a little better. Rather than berating these poor, hard-working, risk-taking companies working to give us better plants and crops we should try their products and reward their successes.
Free country, Boggy - you're quite welcome to buy up all the golf-ball tomatoes and the turnipy strawberries and the tasteless hard bananas if you like!
You could even start a "Friends of Monsanto", to reward them for working so hard purely out of the goodness of their stony money-grubbing little corporate hearts just to help us, and certainly not just to make vast profits with no thought or concern for the consequences for tomorrow's environment.
I expect its shareholders would join!
Steady there - modern breeding is nowadays done for enhanced flavour and texture.
