Bulbs: Bizarro Weather - Whose bulbs are growing?, 1 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
Here's my first bloom of the season -- a Narcissus bulbocodium hybrid, sometimes called a hoop petticoat. This is in the same family as the ones from the catalogs, but those were bred to be pot plants and don't reliably bloom here the second year -- and they also bloom 4 months later.

Edited to add that these bloom as soon as the ground thaws and can take a lot of freezing weather. The flowers are hardy to 17 degrees that I know of, although they fold up like a datura in the cold and then unfurl when it's above freezing.

Suzy


This message was edited Jan 10, 2007 5:36 AM