About 15 years ago, a friend gave me three jonquil bulbs and said "boy will you be surprised when these bloom!" I was because they bloomed far earlier than any other jonquils I had planted. They have been quite prolific and my 3 bulbs have grown to more than 100! I have a good friend who judges jonquil shows and she was convinced that they are Rijnveld's Early Sensation. I ordered 100 early sensation bulbs and planted them between two groups of my early blooming bulbs. As you can see from this picture (which was taken SE of Atlanta today) the mystery bulbs are blooming about 2 weeks earlier than the Early Sensation bulbs.
Here is a close up of the trumpet of the first Early Sensation bulb to bloom this season.
This is a close up of the trumpet of one of many mystery jonquils. It is shorter and fatter than the trumpet of early sensation. Of course, another possibility is that I was not sent true early sensation bulbs when I ordered them.
Do any of you have any idea what my mystery jonquil bulb is? I'm wondering if it is a subspecies of Early Sensation.
