Month: January 2012

Early Season

Early, for sure. For folks who exhibit, messy, too. Here, in Zone 7, I picked a lovely cantabricus on Christmas day. Golden Avalanche has buds 10″ above ground, and Polly’s Pearl and Avalanche have foliage at least a foot high,…

Also not daffodil, but related

At Mary’s urging I bought a $5 amaryllis at Walmart, convinced that it was a bad purchase and would be inferior to the nice ones I usually buy at somewhat greater cost. It bloomed this week and I attach a…

blooming

Friends, This spring I received 2 rounds of ‘Emerald Monarch’ (still to be registered 8 W-G) from John Hunter in New Zealand. Amazingly, it bloomed in June. John said the blooms were not typical. It’s been in bloom now for…