To those interested in historic daffodils, I have just been reading the ADS list of historic daffodils and cannot quite understand why the variety ‘Ave’ is in the pre 1940 list, as the 1935 supposed version of ‘Ave’ appears to…
Category: Breeding
Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.
Seedlings 1
All, This spring I made some new observations concerning fertility of crosses between standard daffodils and species. Tetraploid standard daffodils with four chromosome sets (NNNN) crossed with diploid species for example jonquils (JJ) give an allotriploid plant with NNJ, which should…
Hummingbird
Further to my note about N. dubius/poeticus these are pictures of a pot of N. assoanus festooned with labels as described – it is a more photogenic pot that those of N. dubius.. for N. assoanus and N. dubius…
The Elusive W-R Trumpet
There were many private discussions amongst the hybridizers at the Murphys convention concerning 1W-R breeding and results. An observation from here is that there is some as yet undefined linkage between corona length and color expression. It seems to me…
red or orange
When I buy a W-R, I look at the breeding, and if it’s bred from pink daffodils, I expect it will be pink-red here. Otherwise I’d expect it to be orange-red. The RHS Registration Form gives these guidelines for…
re Poeticus
To those interested in Poeticus classification. It is not that the variety ‘Merthan’ is a poeticus or not, that interests me, as it is rather impossible to decide by looking at one photograph. It is the mistaken views that some hold on what…