NARCISSUS MINNOW

(Division 8) A fine Alec Gray miniature hybrid. Up to 4 tiny heads per stem.  They open golden but fade to a beautiful cream.

Height: 8"

Flowers: March

price:5 = £5.00

NARCISSUS CYCLAMINEUS

Div 13. A very beautiful species of deep yellow with a long trumpet and completely swept back petals. Excellent for naturalising in a damp acid soil where it will seed around. Stock grown from seed. Can easily die if too dry. Few.

Height: 5" 

Flowers: Early Mar

NARCISSUS XIT

A stunning pure white N.watieri hybrid with small round white flowers on stiff stems. Perfect for troughs or rock garden or maybe try it in light shade.

Height: 6"

Flowers: April

price £4.00 each; 3 = £11.00

NARCISSUS SNIPE

(Division 6) We are lucky to be able to offer a few of this exquisite cyclamineus  daffodil.  Very dwarf with a solitary nodding flower. White petals and a long lemon yellow trumpet. . Absolutely exquisite, it does best in a humus rich acid soil. Early and long lasting

Height: 6"

Flowers: feb - March

3 = £6.00

NARCISSUS AVALANCHE

(Division 8) This is a  robust tazetta daffodil with up to 10 glistening white flowers with lemon yellow cups. Strongly scented , making an excellent cut flower.. Like all this group the leaves appear early in the winter. It grows best in a slightly sheltered situation where it will not be damaged by early strong winds. Plant the bulbs in the autumn in any good garden soil in sun. Summer dormant.  Huge bulbs!

Height:12" 

Flowers: Mar/Apr

Price: 5 = £5.00; 15 = £13.75

NARCISSUS CORDUBENSIS

(Division 13) A spectacular jonquil species from S Spain. Masses of deep gold strongly scented flowers - up to 10 per stem, with small flat cups. Needs a dry sunny postion to flower well. It is perfect for a pot in a cold glasshouse. Plant the bulbs in autumn  in well drained soil in full sun.  Summer dormant

Height:14”

Flowers: April

3 = £6.00

NARCISSUS INTERMEDIUS

(Division 13) Masses of strongly scented golden flowers on tall stiff stems. This wild hybrid requires are very warm, dry summer dormancy to flower well. Excellent in a pot in cold glass.

Height: 14"

Flowers: April

price: 10 = £7.00

NARCISSUS JUMBLIE

(12) An excellent little cyclamineus hybrid with two to three clear yellow flowers to the stem. Slightly orange cup and well reflexed petals. Sister seedling to Tete a Tete but the cyclamineus parentage is more pronounced and the deeper trumpet longer.

Height: 8"

Flowers: Mar

NARCISSUS POETICUS PRAECOX

(13)  Early Pheasant Eye daffodil. 
This is the early flowering form of poeticus recurvus.. It is strongly scented. The snow-white petals with a tiny yellow cup edged with red. It was this red colouring that gave rise to all the colour in subsequent daffodil hybrids. Can be naturalised under trees but it will be shy to flower if it is too dry.

Height:16"

Flowers: March-April

3 = £6.00

NARCISSUS TETE A TETE

(12) Probably the best of all dwarf hybrids. Very early and tremendously long lasting. Golden petals very slightly reflexed from the neat cups.Cannot be too strongly recommended and a very prolific flowerer. Perfect for containers, borders, woodland or even grass. The most famous of all Alec Gray's miniatures.

Height: 6"

Flowers: Feb-Mar

10 = £6.00; 25 = £13.75

NARCISSUS WILKOMII

(Division 13).  A tiny species daffpodil with up to three tiny golden-yellow, strongly scented flowers. It needs a dry summer dormancy to flower so is best grown in an Alpine house. We received this as a pot of very small bulbs that were collected by Col Stocken in the 1930s and had never flowered. For many years we listed it as "Stocken" until we discovered the secret of flowering - a long hot,dry summer and found it was the delightful Spanish specie.

Height: 4"

Flowers: Apr

Price: 10 = £8.00

NARCISSUS GRANDE MONARCH

(Division 8) This is an old Cornish tazetta daffodil with up to 5 small white flowers with cream cups. Strongly scented and early flowering. . Like all this group the leaves appear early in the winter. It grows best in a slightly sheltered situation where it will not be damaged by early strong winds. Plant the bulbs in the autumn in any good garden soil in sun. Summer dormant.  

Height:12" 

Flowers: Mar/Apr

Price: 10 = £7.00

NARCISSUS POETICUS var HELLENICUS

(Division 13) This is an exsquisite tiny, perfectly round Pheasant Eye daffodil. Pure white petals and a completely flat, red-rimmed cup. One of the last to flower. Rather tall for the size of the flower!

Height: 14"

Flowers: May

3 = £6.00

NARCISSUS POETICUS PLENUS (TAMAR DOUBLE WHITE)

DIVISION 4  The late flowering double form of the pheasant eye daffodul. Pute glistening white, rather uneven double, The remains of the tiny red rimmed cup can be glimpsed deep in the centre among the petals. Can be naturalised under trees but it will be shy to flower if it is too dry. Very scented and originally grown in large areas of Cornwall as a cut flower.

Height:16"

Flowers: May

5 = £6.00

NARCISSUS TETE BOUCLE

(Division 12  )A chance sport from Tete a Tete. This is exactly the same size but each flower is fully double. Makes and impressive pot display. 

Height: 6"

Flowers: Feb-Mar

5 = £6.00

NARCISSUS ROSEDOWN

Division 5. One of Alec Gray's taller hybrids. Delicate nodding flowers with yellow petals and a globular orange-red cup. Often twin headed.

Height: 14"

Flowers: March

price: 5 = £5.00

NARCISSUS SPOIROT

(Division  10) A vigorous and free flowring white bulbocodium. the large expanded trumpets have a  hint of green. Unlike most white bulbocodiums it flowers in the spring.  Perfect for a pots in alpine house, rock garden or raised bed. Easy. Plant the bulbs in the autumn. Summer dormant.

Height:6"

Flowers: Feb-Mar

5 = £5.00

NARCISSUS ANGEL'S BREATH

(Div.5) A wonderful new miniature with uo to 4 graceful nodding heads of pale yellow. Perfect for a pot in a cold glasshouse or trough. 

Height: 9”

Flowers: April

5 = £5.00

NARCISSUS AGNES HARVEY

(Div.5) An old (pre 1902!) but still beautiful dwarf triandrus hybrid daffodil. It has 1 to 2 nodding white flowers. Plant the bulbs in the autumn in any good garden soil in sun or part shade. Scarce

Height: 9”

Flowers: April

3 = £6.50

NARCISSUS BOBBYSOXER

(7)A dwarf jonquilwith neat round yellow flowers and orange cups. Twin headed. Not one of Alec Gray's smallest hybrids but an excellent garden plant.

Height: 10"

Flowers: April

5 = £5.00; 15 = £13.75

NARCISSUS CLOUD NINE

(Div 2) A delightful intermediate reversed bicolor daffodil. The well shaped flowers open bright lemon and the cup gradually fades to cream. It is one of the last to flower and is long lasting in flower and very vigorous. One of my all time favourites.   A real stunner. Plant the bulbs in the autumn. Summer dormant.

Height: 14"

Flowers: April 

5 = £5.00

NARCISSUS ELKA

(Division 1) A tiny gem of a dwarf trumpet daffodil from Alec Gray with a slightly nodding lemon trumpet and milk white petals. It does well here on the edge of a shrub bed where it is dry in the summer. Plant in the autumn. Summer dormant.

Height:4"

Flowers: Mar

5 = £5.00; 

NARCISSUS JOHANNA

(Div 5) One of Alec Gray’s larger hybrids but still  distinctive & attractive. 1-2 pale lemon flowers with expanded darker yellow trumpets. Nodding.

Height: 14"

Flowers: March-April

10= £7.00

NARCISSUS LEMON SILK

Division 6. This beautiful cyclamineus daffodil has pale lemon flowers. The long trumpet is slightly paler than the well reflexed petals. Early flowering forming good sized clumps. It always excites interest in the garden. One of the best new introduction. We are retaining the stock as it is still very scarce.

.Height:14"

Flowers: early March

3 = £5.00, 10 = £15.30

NARCISSUS MEDIOLUTEUS (biflorus) (Primrose Peerless)

(Division 13) This is one of the very oldest daffodil cultivars still in cultivation. Over the centuries it has been known by a series of different names: Narcissus biflorus, Primrose Peerless, Cemetery Ladies all refer to ether its appearance or use. This late flowering narcissus has 1 or 2  small white flowers with a tiny lemon yellow cup. Sweetly scented flowers

Please see the Articles page in our website forthe full story of this fascinating daffodil.

Height:10"

Flowers: April-May

3 = £6.00

NARCISSUS PACHYBOLBUS

This Moroccan species is probably a small form of N.papyraceous. Masses of pure white, heavily scented flowers with neater more compact heads than Paperwhite and with a tiny perfectly ropund corona. Keep frost free. The bulbs were given to me by John Blanchard many years ago.

Height: 12"

Flowers:Jan - feb

3 = £6.00;

NARCISSUS RIJNVELDT'S EARLY SENSATION

(Division2)  One of the most useful trumpet daffodils. It is the first to flower, often around chriostmas and long before any other daffodil is hardly through the ground. It is the daffodil that used as an example of 'global warming'!. It is a short flowered standard trumpet daffodil shape of egg-yellow throughout with a rather flared cup that is slightly darker. Often in flower on Christmas Day. Very vigorous, increasing well. can be naturalised in grass.

Height: 10"

Flowers: Jan-Feb

5 = £6.00; 15 = £16.50

NARCISSUS RIKKI

Division 7  The small round flowers open yellow then the petals fade to cream. Slightly larger than Little Sentry with a slightly more starry appearance.  Vigorous. Another Alec Gray hybrid.

Height: 8"

Flowers: April

price: 5 = £6.00

NARCISSUS SEGOVIA

(Division 3) This little Div 3 daffodil looks much more like jonquil hybrid which is not surprising as one of its parents is the tiny jonquil species N.watieri.  A very beautiful miniature, regularly winning prizes in competitions.. Superbly contrasting glistening white petals and small flat lemon cup. Actually bred by Alec's wife Flomay.

Height:6"

Flowers: April

5 = £5.00; 15 = £13.75

NARCISSUS COMPRESSUS

(Div.8) Strongly sented multiheaded variety with up to 10 heads per stem. The flowers are pure glistening white with a tiny yellow cup. Early flowering, in a mild winter it may flower in January. Flowers best after a warm summer.

Height:14"

Flowers: Mar

5 = £5.00;  15 = £13.75