We are delighting in all of these gorgeous pictures which remind us that it is springtime Down Under. But across the Northern Hemisphere, plagued by drought and high heat (my home state has had 2.6 total inches of rain since…
Category: Weather and Temperature
Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.
The Dream and the Reality
Two of my daffodil fields today. First year down planting closest to the camera. Season is about three weeks behind normal Hi Folks, Each year we show our flowers and determine that next year we will win every class. We…
Winter bulbocodiums
It has been a cold frosty winter here and many flowers are later than usual. The tazettas in the field are miserable. The paperwhites are miserable too but they seem a little more hardy. The viridiflorus hybrids in the field…
Canberra early May
Thanks everyone for the the show reports and pictures. We’ve had the first couple of touches of frost here. N. viridiflorus is flowering as are some of its second generation fertile hybrids. The bulbocodium season has begun. The triggers to…
Chinese Sacred Lily (N. tazetta var chinensis) seeds…
Yes, you can look at all the articles coming out of China and elsewhere, on how hopelessly sterile this variety is. But, thanks to the wonders of significantly warmer temperatures here in recent years, and my discovery that with otherwise…
Brown daffodils / Variable flowering time
Elegans/obsoletus opens greenish brown and then develops to an intense orange. It looks as if this development in the hybrids can be delayed and that both green and brown coronas are possible. 09_02T x Gold Step. (09_02T is a First…