Don't worry Rosalind. I think they'll be fine. Actually, this is a fairly normal time for them to flower in my garden (North Island, NZ) though they always surprise me (mostly because I can't quite believe we are so far into the year already!). We have had an unusually warm autumn and this has certainly confused a few things. A friend was picking apples from a blossoming tree. More Rhododendrons than usual have squeezed out some flowers thus spoiling their spring display.However, the jonquils you refer to usually do start flowering in autumn/early winter and if they are a bit early it shouldn't bother them.
Anne.
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1. Looking for species Crocus leaf samples (Evan Eifler)
2. spring bulbs out in autumn in New Zealand (Rosalind Hursthouse)
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:21:46 -0500
From: Evan Eifler <evan.eifler@gmail.com>
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Subject: [pbs] Looking for species Crocus leaf samples
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Hi Everyone,
I recognize it's getting late in the season, but does anyone happen to have
species *Crocus* still in leaf? I'm looking for leaf tissue of any *species*
of *Crocus* - so not horticultural varieties, hybrids, etc.
If you remember, I am working on building a family tree for *Geissorhiza*,
one of the more obscure but beautiful bulb genera indigenous to South
Africa. I finally got my first batch of gene sequences back for a subset of
the species and the project is going well.
In addition to *Geissorhiza*, I've decided to expand my family tree to
include generic representatives (an individual specimen from each genus) of
the Iridaceae subfamily, Crocoideae so I can conduct a nested analysis of
*Geissorhiza* within Crocoideae which will improve the accuracy of my
results.
If anyone is willing to part with a few leaves of their *Crocus*, please
let me know and I will give you further instructions. I'm happy to pay for
shipping if necessary.
Thanks, and I hope to post an update on my research to the Bulb Garden
later this year!
Evan
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 04:45:42 +0000
From: Rosalind Hursthouse <r.hursthouse@auckland.ac.nz>
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Is anyone else in Auckland, NZ encountering this? My first paper white narcissi flowered on the 29th of March (!), followed by lots of others; then the straw-yellow ones started, and today the first yellow and orange one has come out. I am very worried about what will happen to them in the cold sodden ground during the winter when they will be expecting to bake in the summer heat. Any advice welcome.
Rosalind
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