Month: March 2014

Standard Size White/Orange Trumpet Seedling

This has color and is a true trumpet. The perianth is very white which is a good thing. However, a few weak points: it really doesn’t have very wide petals and is thinner in substance than my ideal. It also…

Standard Trumpet ‘Sherwood Gold’

An unusually long trumpet that is 5mm longer than the perianth segments! A real “snouter” yet balanced, smooth and elegant with a narrow, refined trumpet. Winner of Best Seedling (while under number) in Show at the Murphy’s California National Convention.…

Very Tiny Miniatures

My talented plantsman friend, the late Dr. Frank Galyon sent me a bulb of a very, very tiny form of N. fernandesii. I used every scrap of pollen and set seed on it once after which, it promptly died. This is…

Miniature 3Y-R

I posted the -16 clone from this cross last year. This is the -4 clone from the V05-10 cross which is a true 3Y-R Miniature measuring 37mm (1.45″) in diameter. It does have a stem height of 10″ tall which…

Rest in Peace

Friends, We have received word of the death of William Knopik, co-founder, along with his wife Martha, of The Midwest Daffodil Society, in Glencoe, IL. He passed away on January 30, 2014. He was 87 years old. He was Mr…