Australia
7 Cultivars Listed
5 Y-Y
Here's a pedigreed child: poppy is a species jonquil and mumsy a species triandrus. Angel's Breath is a vigorous grower and should be widely adaptable. We also list her sister, Angel's Whisper, who is similar. About 20 years old, Tasmanian bred. Small and robust. ADS Miniature.
5 Y-Y
Angel's Whisper : An equally robust sister to Angel's Breath. Both are a species Jonquil x species triandrus cross. From Tasmania.
1 Y-Y
For being a bit obscure we have moderate numbers of Habit, a golden trumpet of great substance. Habit has notable children, mostly Californian, each with fit and crisply-shaped petals.
8 W-Y
A substantial Australian Tazetta from the golden age of tazetta breeding. A cross of Grand Monarque and pseudo-narcissi, Killara is an ADS Historic.
10 W-Y
It is hard to find a description of a bulbocodium that does not use the hackneyed term "whimsical", along with the appellation " Hoop Petticoats" which went out of style like a century before the demise of Poodle Skirts. Two thirds of all bulbocodiums registered have been registered in this century , the 21st.
This family of narcissus have a will to live and bloom against all odds. But their beauty comes also from being something primordial, na‘ve and completely impractical in design. For such a small little flower they are full of pathos and joy. Mitimoto was bred in Tasmania and was one of the first products of a new wave in Bulbocodium breeding. A lot of drama in a petite plant. An ADS Miniature.
10 W-W
Spoirot is a Bulbicodium from Tasmania that develops a clear, white color with some contrasting green in the tube. Seed fertile, several descendants. Name is an Agatha Christie reference - HerculeS Poirot,
2 Y-O
In a world of hyphenated family names Sun Bronze conventionally would be named "Runaway Cowboy". Kind of fitting I will keep that in mind if come across another blazing hotpoker red orange from Tasmania.