Category: Weather and Temperature

Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.

Final flower

It has been an idyllic spring here with mild temperatures and regular rain. This has made the last flower very late indeed: – a species poeticus grown from seed from Steve Vinisky. It is very much later that all the…

Final Pick

Last week was the last significant pick of daffodils for the season. Just because it was possible a few of these were put in the Canberra iris show. Typically late flowers do poorly here and many from the N. hemisphere…

Late 11b’s and others

Not many 11b’s have been registered this century. To my eye, judging from the photos in Daffseek, the most attractive of these is Brian Duncan’s ‘Jodi’. Until convinced otherwise, I think a good 11b is not just split, it features…

Advice wanted

One question I get regularly is what daffodils will grow in Sydney.  Now in the CBD would be a challenge and most would be more like annuals as the temperatures rarely fall below 10 degrees Celsius.  But out in the…