The temperatures in central North Carolina have bounced around a bit during the past week or so, but there have been no extremes and that's good for the daffodil show. Two more early varieties have come into bloom since my last post and I have some pictures to share.
Narcissus 'Jumblie' is first, it's a sister seedling of the very popular N. 'Tête-à-tête'. Like 'Tête-à-tête', it's an early bloomer with yellow petals and a yellow-orange cup, but 'Jumblie' has very reflexed petals, showing much more influence from N. cyclamineus. Because scale is often hard to show in flower pictures, especially close-ups, 'Jumblie' might be compared to 'Jetfire', but 'Jumblie' is a much smaller plant and the cup has much less orange.
Narcissus 'Ceylon' is next, and it's a favorite of mine, along with its near twin, N. 'Pinza'. In my garden, these two are hard to tell apart, but 'Ceylon' is consistently shorter and blooms a little later. 
Although Narcissus are providing most of the color in the garden right now, other plants, such as Helleborus, Leucojum, and Ipheion, are beginning to bloom, so I'll focus on them in my next post.
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