When in NZ visit the Daffodil breeders. A few photo’s to follow. John Hunter Has beautiful yard and lots of daffodil stories. John Hunter and my wife Teri.
My NZ vacation
Day: November 15, 2013
Fertility update – Div.7
The foundational fertile jonquil/main division hybrids are, of course, Limequilla Hillstar and Quickstep (and perhaps Gertrude Nethercote). The key problem is how to reliably introduce the genetics of the best main division hybrids into this group. It is now clear…
More Autumn blooming tazettas
Michael Berrigan visited Bill Welch this past Monday and later with us for dinner that evening. He brought the tazettas in these photos which are currently blooming in Bills’s field. Bill Welch grows many tazettas near the Pacific ocean on Montery…
More on division six fertility
Lawrence and all, I enjoyed your post on division six fertility. Some very nice seedlings. I have tried several times to set seed on Rapture and so far have failed. Usually it’s pretty cold when it blooms here perhaps this…