I paid a quick visit to Reg and Rita Cull as Reg had rung to say he had a nice bloom out of his first registration and it was not photographed on Daffseek..Over a nice coffee , Reg told an…
A Few Early Show flowers
Month: August 2013
Golden Rice Update
Anti Genetically Modified Foods people recently vandalized the golden rice field trials in the Philippines. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23632042 It is estimated that…. “According to Helen Keller International, around 670,000 children will die each year from the problem, while 350,000 will go blind.”…
Tazettas and Jonquillas at Wilfs .
We are continuing to have a warm late winter – early spring in the Kapiti – Horowhenua area and many other regions of N .Z. Many areas had record warm July temperature figures – the grass is growing and the…
Update on Golden Rice
As many daffodil people know, a strain of rice was genetically modified with two genes from daffodils so that the rice is able to manufacture carotein, an essential nutrient that is missing from white rice. Golden rice helps prevent blindness,…
ADS Tucson Fall Board meeting questions
Chriss Rainey is finalizing the registration form for the ADS Fall Board meeting in Tucson, Arizona on October 18-20, 2013. Please Respond to Chriss at
Toward fertile 7O-O
The first of the non-viridiflorus fertile jonquil hybrids have started flowering here. They seem to respond to the milder conditions and extra water at the house and are ahead of the very early big main division flowers, which are only…