Many of you will be familiar with Deen Day Sanders, here in Georgia – because she has been so very supportive of ADS and GDS since 1990. Bill Pannill named a daffodil for Deen and it was registered as ‘Deen…
Category: Breeding
Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.
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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…
The former. . . Hybridizer’s Round Robin
To Becky Fox Mathews, Mike Berringer, Bill Carter, Mitch Carney, Harold Koopowitz, Bob Spots, Mary Lou Gripshover, Janet Hickman and all hybridizers and those that want to be hybridizers: I recently had a email conversation of sorts with Sara Van…
Daffodil Questions
I was recently asked by Email 5 questions about planting from an ADS member. I’m posting the questions and my answers below. It’s hard to answer these questions directly, therefore, I had to sort of explain my method as well…