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So commonly grown in pots that it is easy to forget what a wonderful garden plant it is, flowering here in January.
Very low growing, safe from snow and gales and winter wildness.
An early flowering dwarf raised by Alec Gray in 1949. An open pollinated seedling of N. 'Cyclataz'.
It took a long time for commercial growers to grab hold of it. Nowadays it is the commonest variety grown in pots
for sales in the dead weeks after Christmas. I don't try very hard to resist it at the start of the year, and as
a result I have little clumps dotted around the garden. A couple of years ago I was particularly indulgent
and filled a big pot with bulbs so that my front door could glow with golden light. It didn't stop me falling
off the front steps and twisting an ankle last winter in the dark, but it still cheered me up the next morning
as I hobbled past.
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