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I planted this lovely native daffodil in the meadow, thinking that I would love its delicate flowers in March, but much to my chagrin it is nowhere near as effective
as the 'Rijnvelds Early Sensation' that preceed it.
Forms very tight clumps in the meadow, which isn't quite the effect I was trying for, but I do quite enjoy them in flower. The Tenby daffodil is found in populations in the west of Wales and may (or may not) be a genuine native daffodil. The BSBI say: "A bulbous perennial herb, found in hedgerows, churchyards, roadsides and other, generally open, grassy places. It is occasionally found as a persistent, deliberately planted or discarded clump or small colony in parts of Britain other than south-western Wales. A puzzling taxon now thought to have been derived from wild forms of N. hispanicus brought into cultivation by Medieval times. It was named in 1786 and was first recorded in the wild, near to Tenby (Pembrokeshire), in 1829. The vast majority of records come from south-western Wales (Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire) where it is frequently encountered close to human habitations. The Welsh population was much reduced by commercial bulb collectors in the early 19th century but it remains widespread with no evidence of a change in distribution in recent decades, despite more systematic recording of garden escapes. It is very similar to some wild forms of N. hispanicus and so is treated as a subspecies of Spanish Daffodil by some authorities (N. hispanicus subsp. hispanicus)." |
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| 17th January 2006 | ||
