Category: Hybridizing

Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.

summer tazettas

This summer has been mild and wet in Canberra. The result is that tazettas started flowering in late January and quite a few are flowering a month later, which is still very early by usual standards. 19_67T is a standard…

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…

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…

Vale Graeme Brumley

I have been informed that Graeme Brumley passed away last Saturday. He turned 90 this year. Graeme was from a daffodil family and had a long standing involvement with daffodils and the Victorian Daffodil Society. His main breeding interest was…