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Post by andy on Jul 18, 2011 10:47:13 GMT
Want to order 100 or so of these for work. Has anyone grown them ?...is the pink in the centre any good or a bit wishy-washy.
Seen some lovely photos of them but i don't usually believe the colours in glossy catalogues.
Ta muchly-wuchly ;D
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Post by Jasmine on Jul 18, 2011 15:33:11 GMT
The closest I have to a pink trumpeted daffodil Andy is Mrs RO Backhouse which was supposed to be the first pink trumpeted daffodil bred. I have to say you'd have to be very generous to call it pink - I would call it an apricot colour. I've been having a google and most folk seem to say that the pink of modern bred daffodils isn't a real pink but a peachy pink. I'd have thought that it would be very hard to breed a truly pink trumpeted daffodil from a flower that would normally be white, orange or yellow  |
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Post by Barbara on Jul 19, 2011 6:41:09 GMT
You can always get your paintbrush out.  |
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Post by theinsidegardener on Oct 1, 2013 10:45:09 GMT
Hi andy, was just wondering did you get the replete? I've been humming and ha'ing about getting them this year and was wondering if you did get them in the end and what you thought of them? |
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Post by andy on Oct 1, 2013 11:42:27 GMT
Yes i did and they were lovely,. although not as pink as the photos. They're quite late flowering if i remember...maybe early May and the leaves did "hang around a bit"
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Post by theinsidegardener on Oct 1, 2013 18:45:39 GMT
Thanks andy. I haven't seen them in our local garden centres, but if I place an order online I might just get them - will maybe put them in a seperate pot so that I can hide them when the flowers are gone. Last year I was so sick of daff leaves I ended up pulling them a bit early, so am going to have to persevere this year in order to not waste so much money. |
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