Category: Publications and Resources

Information about books, magazines, journals, CDs, DVDs and other media containing information about daffodils.

Chambersburg, PA Daffodil Show

The Chambersburg Daffodil show was held yesterday and today.  The judging was on Saturday morning.  Kate and Mitch Carney pulled off a great show.  Here are some of the winners and some of the pictures: Gold Ribbon was Astrid’s Memory…

Saline River 2Y-Y

Last year I donated Saline River 2Y-Y to the ADS auction, as well as scattered a few around the Eastern US. It’s usually Early Mid-Spring, this year it got caught up in the spring thaw that we had in late…

2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break

Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much.  As a pollen dabber, I…

SCAM

I received an email from a scammer this morning wanting me to go to Amazon and buy a gift card for a dying friend of theirs and they were going to reimburse me later. That is a scam.  It used…

Ready for Winter

I’ve finished my daffodil planting this year. I don’t know if it fortunate or unfortunate that bulbs divide. This year I gave away packages of bulbs that I distributed across the east coast and still had to naturalize a fair…

Funny story on Hybridizing

My first attempts at making crosses were a disaster, it was spring 1997 after we had moved into the house with Fran’s mother, Marie Bozievich, to take care of her as she was 90 years old, fragile but ambulatory.  I…