Day: December 15, 2009

Green flowers

From the cross of [Emerald Sea x Lima’s Green Success], Clone #4, is the largest and greenest so far. Flowers are 3 to a stem and each measures about 70 mm. Now I need to widen the petals without having…

that time of the year again…

Hello John,   An excellent source, although limited in quantities, is the Hortus Bulborum in Limmen, Holland. Due to the colder climate, winter flowering tazettas are however scarcely represented. In Italy in the Region of Apulia (Puglia in Italian) a…

farm land in southern France

The Bordeaux region of Southern France is quickly being gobbled up by urban sprawl and the “prime or best” farmland in the region sells for nearly $3 million an acre and is mostly devoted now to vineyards. The climate is…

that time of the year again…

Hello Sara, Paperwhites are now grown mostly in Israel and also the bulbs sold in Italy come from there, albeit via Holland. Small quantities of N. tazetta tazetta and N. tazetta ‘Italicus’ are available from stock grown in Italy. Export…