Worlds Apart-Colour me yellow:

This is a tall clump-forming perennial with upright pleated leaves of bright green. Growing to 3 feet tall with an additional 1 to 2 feet inflorescence crowded with rich yellow flowers. Plant in a sunny location in moist soil, if you don't have moist soils dont'panic or be put off growing this beauty. It can also stand droughts, going into temporary dormancy if the dry spell is too long.

Depending on your climates, it is hardy to Zone 8 BTW; this will flower for you towards the end of your winter-spring season.

Ours are not flowering yet, but other IBS family members have it flowering now. The picture you are looking at comes from Bill Richardson who lives in another part of Victoria.

Propagation is by division and or seed. Seed set is very prolific. The rootstock is also fairly giving when it comes to increasing your stocks of this plant.

With us, it flowers from September and depending on the aspect of the clumps, can still be seen flowering in early December.

The other yellow which flowers at the same time is Narcissus Calcicola. I can do no better than to quote another IBS family member on this species.

Charles Hardman writes:

If you love the tiniest of the tiny, the miniature miniatures of the flowering bulb world, do give Narcissus calcicola a try. I got seeds of this species in 1990 from the IBS Seed Exchange and planted them in December of that year. They bloomed for the first time in spring,1996, shocking me with their tiny 'King Alfred'-like perfection.

I'm sure they would have bloomed a year or two earlier had I fed them a bit more potassium and phosphorus while they were growing up. But the species was new to me and I felt it better to err on the side of mild starvation rather than risk losing the bulbs to overfeeding.