Month: June 2010

‘Ave’

  To those interested in historic daffodils, I have just been reading the ADS list of historic daffodils and cannot quite understand why the variety ‘Ave’ is in the pre 1940 list, as the 1935 supposed version of ‘Ave’ appears to…

Naming selections from species

Species, naming selections, final paper.doc Dear All, Here is the document that the RHS Daffodil and Tulip Committee and the RHS Advisory Panel on Narcissus Classification (now the Advisory Sub-Committee on Narcissus Classification) produced about naming selections from species. The…

seed questions, etc.

I wanted to thank those of you who responded with their thoughts on seed germination.  The concensus is directly after harvesting, ripe.  Although no real harm comes to later planted seed.  So be it, I will sow directly, which I…