Month: October 2013

End of end season

Years ago Steve Vinisky sent me some species poet seed. I have one surviving specimen and it is always the very last daffodil to flower here. The first flower has now opened so it really is the end of the…

South Island National Show Photos

Hi Everyone I think I have mastered the technology of daffnet. So I will continue – 1-Y reverse        Sargents Caye exhibited by Robin Simons and the photo was taken by Neil 1W-P                  Chanson exhibited by John Hollever and the photo…

A New Zealand Bereavement

It is with sadness that I advise NDS members that Taranaki member Roy Willcox passed away on Saturday.  Roy, from Hawera, was well known in the Taranaki – Central  area as a keen Amateur exhibitor.  He and his wife Noeleen…

Nerine sarniensis hybrids

Here are some of the late Ed Zinkowski’s Nerine sarniensis hybrids, two Nerine species hybrids, and one hybrid of my own raising. They are a joy in the fall. Nerine’s begin to bloom with the fall rains and as the…