The frames are taken away in the end of February with the heaters still at work. Theo
Day: August 25, 2009
Many seeds 3
The beds with the heaters are covered with a wooden frame with double transparent polycarbonat on top and sealed up with film and soil at the sides. Before sealing a substance against snails is spread. To hold the temperature low during the…
Many seeds 2
The seed corns shown in ‘Many seeds 1’ are not all I harvested this year. Indeed I got about 36690 from 201 different crosses. 26000 seeds were planted very close together, because my heated seed beds are designed for 10000 seed…
Many seeds 1
The good and homogeneous looking seeds are from a cross of ((Royal China x (Assertion x Amadeus)). Normally there are no problems to get seed from such crosses of standard daffodils. More complicated it is to obtain seeds from…
A nice wee species
Hi Daffnetters, This is a delightful wee species grown from imported seed. My mind has been inventing crosses for it, seems to me to need some split corona pollen. Has anyone attempted a cross like that? Your thoughts are…
first blooms
Not a daffodil but a miniature amaryllid from the Mediterranean and is always the first bulb to herald the autumn daffs. It is Hanonia hesperidium. harold