From up here in the far north where the ground freezes solid up to 6 feet deep: Much research has been done on cold hardiness in plant materials in my neck of the woods, Minnesota. Those of us in the…
Category: Growing Daffodils
an alternate to HWT from Margaret Seconi NZ
Margaret, I few years back I brought bulbs along on a September trip to NZ. They had proper phyto documentation from Grant Mitsch Daffodils and were in good health. I declared them upon arrival at Auckland Airport. Your MAF officials…
sun-drying bulbs
Daffnetters, My experience with bulbs left in the sun is quite different from that of Clay Higgins and Dave Adams. Here in Oakley, California, any bulb missed in digging and left in the sun for a few days will be…
an alternate to HWT?
Hot water treatment as far as I have read will NOT kill the various virus’s that daffodil bulbs can be infested with. Hot water treatment for bulbs is normally used to kill mites, nematodes, bulb flies ETC. There is an…
an alternate to HWT?
Has anyone tried putting bulbs in your car, closing the windows, and letting the car sit in the sun all day as an alternative to HWT? It gets hot enough inside to kill a child (as we unfortunately had locally…
Braithwaite’s Plots
These final pictures are of the shade house where all flowers with intense colour are finished, they are not put in the house until the perianth start to open and taken out in to the open as soon as the…