The following pictures are of what we call N. pachybolbus. You may remember that I caused a bit of controversy last year by challenging the identification of some other flowers in the U.K.as this species. Mine are now in flower.…
N. pachybolbus
Month: November 2009
NIDG Meeting
Hi, Ron Scamp from Cornwall was the guest speaker for the ‘Lecture of The Year’ at todays meeting of the Northern Ireland daffodil group. Ron grows 17 acres of daffodils in Cornwall. He showed us how the bulbs…
labels
For those who want to mow over the daffodil bed, in one yard I saw where the person had placed a brick into the ground so the top was level with the surrounding turf. On this they had placed a…
Marie Parton
Lawrence thank you for the lovely words he wrote about Mum (Marie Parton). We have had a rotten year. We lost Dad four months ago and now Mum. These past few weeks have been particularly sad for us all. Thank you…
daffodil flag flying in Central Mississippi
another great plus for autumn blooming flowers: I have finally gotten my new daffodils planted, the week before Thanksgiving (November is the ideal time, weather wise, for this in central Mississippi), and have enjoyed a bright row of clumps of…
speaking of labels…..
Perhaps some of you use the Industrial Strength black Sharpies to write on labels, of various surfaces. If so, have you discovered any easy way (as compared to scrubbing individually each label with Ajax or similar cleaner) to remove the…