Information about condition and health of bulbs.
I was interested in Theo Sanders piece about tetraploid N. b. graellsii crossing with standard daffodils. I wonder if he means all graellsii are tetra ploid or just the larger more robust clones? I tried these crosses for many years,…
The WDS show was held yesterday 14 April in Alexandria, VA at the Alexandria Valley Scottish Rite Temple. We had a good turn out on a sunny day, however the wind was blowing fairly hard but if was a relief…
I had hoped to write an article for the ADS Journal regarding acclimatizing bulbs received from Down Under but never got around to it. Here is my tuppence worth. Sorry Matt, it has no scientific evidence but usually the theories…
I sent the following to our Texas Daffodil membership this morning. Any other thoughts to help new/novice daffodil exhibitors that may only have a few varieties even in bud after a colder than average winter? In the last 60 days…
This was a quickie post I made to our MG group. We have about 83 active members, 12 new students going through 60 hours of training, then 50 hours of volunteer hours. Pretty incredible for me to have only picked…
These will each have several seeds, of various sizes (possibly due to variations in ploidy). I have another stem also with 4 pods, and many with 2-3. Pods generally have multiple seeds. I would say fertility is similar to Avalanche.…