Wild Daffodils in Dymock Woods and Kempley
Shot in March 2009, this short film shows the wild daffodils which grow in Dymock Wood and at Kempley. The deer and geese were fimed in the Forest ...
As the time approaches for autumn planting, some bulbs will do more than just ...
Wildlife, mercifully, leaves narcissi well alone. Daffodil leaves are said to be poisonous to cattle and certainly a big narcissus corm is too much for a squirrel to cart away. I have invested heavily in smaller narcissi to combat what fantasists call the “privilege” of sharing the garden with deer and rabbits. They are the answer to the menace but they tend to give the spring too much of a yellow shine.
I choose three categories, the essential backbone to a spring garden with stamina. I start the year with two superb varieties, so early into flower that they lift the spirits when they appear in late January. One is sometimes sold as January Gold but its proper name is Rijnveld’s Early Sensation. It is fully hardy but it opens its mid-yellow trumpet-shaped flowers on stems about a foot high even before many snowdrops are out. It is brilliant value but Narcissus Spring Dawn may be even better. It is also short-stemmed but its flowers are a paler colour, nearer to primrose-white. Spring Dawn is now in the general wholesale trade, so we can expect to see ever more of it in gardens. These two fine daffodils are the first true hint of spring even before any crocuses are visible. A sharp frost may cause the flower stems to fall out flatly but they always pick up and stand straight again. I think that every keen gardener should have both these varieties. Last winter after the heavy snow they flowered excellently but not until early February.
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Campaign launched to clean up the rural areas in Gozo I don't think the bulldozer will be very kind to the wild narcissus and other wild flowers growing on the verges of the remains of the paths! |
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Wild, wild Warren | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/17/2010 By Peter Biskind In the Hollywood pantheon, Warren Beatty is both Narcissus and Proteus. When the strapping 6-footer crouched down to and more » |
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Martin Amis: Talking about a revolution Above all, Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid ("a book that bowled me over") looms over all these metamorphoses – with the myth of Echo and Narcissus ominously to and more » |
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Jean Simmons: Portrait of a Complicated Lady In Black Narcissus she donned brownface to play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for and more » |
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At 10, Great Plant Picks program makes progress and changes A few flowers made the 2010 cut, including one of my favorite fragrant daffodils, Narcissus poeticus, also known as the pheasant's eye narcissus. and more » |
