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Hi, autumn Narcissus are reaching their peak for me (Valencia, E coast of Spain, zone 10).

Narcissus obsoletus, Narcissus x perezlarae, Narcissus deficiens 'star morph', this one was rescued two years ago from a mound of earth by a roadside along  with some fellars, I thought they were Tulipa or Dipcadi serotinum.

Narcissus deficiens and Muscari parviflorum received from Malta

Narcissus broussonetii (allegedly, antiatlanticum) from the Djebel Imzi in Morocco, where the Dragon trees were found.

Sorry but I usually have little time to rename pictures, they can be scrolled down in order of citation.

Carlos

Great plants and pics!

You're right, it is nice to have the plant names under the individual photos in the file name, but the important thing is that they are in the the text of a message so they are searchable on the forum.  You did good. :)

If you have several photos of each species, the quickest way to have them named would be to have each group of photos as a separate message.  So, all the yellow flowers in one message, with one name, all the white flowers in a second message, and the singles in a third message.

Hi, thanks for the advice. There is the 'insert' option as well...


Here the first truly wild Narcissus deficiens I saw in my area, with Prospero autumnale

Prospero autumnale alone

And Drimia purpurascens (=Drimia undata, Urginea undulata)

A short lesson on autumn flowering Narcissi

Narcissus elegans. From about Al-Hoceima to Nador and Melilla, then again from Tlemcen and Oran to Constantine in Algeria, and Mallorca and Ibiza islands. Flowering with 1-2 leaves.

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Narcissus obsoletus, Tangiers peninsula and mountains in Fez area, somewhere dissapearing and allowing elegans to become dominant, appearing again in Tunisia (with possible hybrids with elegans in El Kala-Constantine, Algeria), Sicily, with a disjunct population in Málaga province, Spain (this one has been called Narcissus malacitanus with not very well-based reasons). With 1-2 leaves when flowering.

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Narcissus serotinus, almost always one flowered, with a 6-cleft greenish crown. Southwestern Iberian peninsula and opposite Moroccan coast, with very few individuals on Formentera island. No leaves when in bloom, and usually not produced afterwards (the flower stalk does the photosynthesis).

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I don't have adult cavanillesii, but it can't be mistaken for any of these.

Carlos Jiménez

The one flower I look forward to in the fall is Paramangaia weberbaueri. It is about 2 weeks early this year.

Amazing, I was given two small bulbs last summer.

Beautiful narcissus -  for now I had no real luck with fall flowering narcissus, but who knows? there was a time when I thought crocusses in that half of the year were difficult, just because one does not see them around... well, not outside my garden.

OK, the weather can be a problem - Crocus vallicola

opend up to the return of the sun today, after a very rainy week. My other new Crocus from Jānis Rukšāns is "autumn fantasy", but that picture already is 8 days old, before the rain. Last in that line of crocus are two later flowers of Crocus niveus

from Uli, donated in EX01

Speaking about Uli: this Oxalis flava

is from this year's EX05 - part 2 of that is still running! Meanwhile in the bog garden is Spiranthes cernua in flower - the only stalk of 4 that wasn't razed by slugs. Nerine undulata

took a braek for a year  but is now back - actually I took the plant into the house when the buds first emerged, Amaryllidaceae are another slugs favorite for me.

Anyway, The worst of winter is through, the Snowdrops are in flower - OK, that joke would only work outside a bulbophile forum - of course that's my new regineae olgae

Wonderful, Martin, I have just discovered Nerine and Lycoris.


Here Arum pictum subsp pictum (Corsica and Sardinia)

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 and Biarum carratracense.

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Carlos

In the last EU Bx, there was a very generous donation by Exbury Nerines. In the final year before Brexit closed trade with the EU, I had bought some bulbs from them and they very generously included over 30 unbloomed bulbs as a gift. Well, the first ones are starting to bloom, so here a couple of what can be anticipated from those who are lucky enough to get some. The last one is "Amethyst Delight' in a purple pot.

Beautiful  color forms, Wylie. It will take a while until the EX-specimen will flower though, they were quite different sizes, but all well under flowering size. Quicker EX success can be achieved with crocus, like this striped Crocus pumilus from the September edition - Thanks @WimB for donation!

Weather has been strange here - after a very cold end of September, October confuses the plants with warm weather, although rather wet in between - not ideal to get the cold sensitive plants ready for inside... On the other hand this has helped Hedychium deceptum

Height:	80-120 cm (2.6-3.9 ft)
Flower Colors:	red
Flower Season:	late summer to mid autumn
Climate:	USDA Zone 8-9

( syn H. rubrum) to finally open up the first time for me - I've had half-grown buds before, always killed by early winter conditions...

I had received all different sizes of Nerine bulbs, and there are about 10 that finally reached flowering size and have scapes. (I also have 35 scapes on named varieties). The others will need time to bulk up, and they will be moved to larger pots next year. Then I do collect and sow any seeds that form and have a number of those growing.

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Good Lord, those are lovely!  Arnold, your photographic skills are impressive.  Really nice capture.

Thank you, Mike.

Wonderful stuff.

Do you know if they have pure botanical Nerine at Exbury? I am looking for  wild types of N. Sarniensis and/or others.

Here a photo taken two weeks ago in my local botanical garden, Valencia. Could it be a wild type?

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They have some more interesting things, though mist ofcthe bulb framesxonly have empty spaces with lonely labels... This goes on in this garden since I was a child, even if my land is know as the "land of the flowers" in a popular song.

The other problem here are misidentified plants. The more I look at sarniensis photos, the more I think the plant above is something else...

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I doubt that you will find "botanical" clones of Nerine sarniensis or bowdenii in European trade - both have been subject to too much selection. I don't even think that my direct SA imports of Nerine masoniorum could be considered as such.

so, what's left of October? not much, even though it was very warm for the season - the Hedychium and the Nerine I showed before still are in flower, as are the last few Tricyrtis, the Oxalis both from this and earlier EX...

So, of the things I didn't show before, there's Hypoxis villosa

which I donated in EX04, but that's almost constantly flowering outside of deepest winter. I've got Kniphofia typhoides

Height:	80-100 cm (2.6-3.3 ft)
Flower Colors:	brown
Flower Season:	late summer to early autumn

in flower, one of those plants you grow from seed for curiosity and then can't bring yourself to let it go - it's really just something curious, no beauty. Typically for the time there are of course Iris foetidissima

berries. And then there ist this picture of this floral visitor on Tulbaghia violacea

, where you ask yourself "How did it get there?? - and why ?!?"