Hu Bob, There’s a good chance your small daff is ’Tete a Tete’. Very easy, very vigorous, lasts and lasts in the garden. When it isn’t too crowded most stems will have 2 flowers per stem (thus the name), but these are a bit crowded. Been around for ages, too. Check it out on line. Best Jim W. > On Mar 6, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Robert Lauf via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > My earliest iris to bloom is I. histrioides, a member of the reticulata section. Grows nicely under a dogwood in a spot that is mostly shaded in summer, but the iris has mostly died back by then. It's small but very colorful. > > Also attached is a nice stand of some unknown mini-daffodil, one of many that I planted probably 40 years ago and likely came from Breck's or another mass mail order house I've long ago forgotten the names of all the varieties, with a few exceptions. They come back and bloom despite never getting thinned and mostly planted in the adobe that Tennesseans laughingly call soil. > > Bob in Oak Ridge, where my flowering quince is starting to bloom, several weeks later than usual. > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Iris histrioides.JPG > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 2471292 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Mini Daffodil.JPG > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 4172918 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>