Hi Jolene, Just to advise that my December Journal arrived in Christchurch today. Dave Adams
Year: 2017
The Colors of Green Daffodils.
One of the things we have learned after several generations of daffodil breeding with N. viridiflorus in the background is that there can be many shades and colors of green – ranging from yellow-greens to blue-greens and even grey-greens. The…
R I P – Robert ( Bob ) MacDonell
New Zealand growers and exhibitors will be saddened by the passing of Bob MacDonell , on Thursday 12 January , after a long illness . Bob was for many years an active member of the N Z D S and …
In bloom today!
On a cold morning with snow on the ground it was a real pleasure to see this seedling from Harold Koopowitz’s extensive and entrepreneurial breeding programme in bloom in the greenhouse. The colours are so delicately subdued and the form…
Fertile triandrus hybrids
In Daffnet (November 7, 2016) Graham Fleming wrote that he got seeds from combining several of his triandrus hybrids with a special triandrus variety (NTT) with one chromosome set of the standard daffodils (N) and two of N. triandrus (T).…
Year of the Daffodil
The National Garden Bureau’s bulb of the year for 2017 is the daffodil! http://ngb.org/year_of/index.cfm?YOID=47