Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

Narcissus x barrae and Narcissus grandae

A new species ‘N. grandae’ has been described. I think it is allotetraploid like for example N. miniatus and N. tortifolius. It has beautiful flowers and is vigerous and therefore should be of interest for exhibition and hybridizing. More information…

20 years wait

Thanks everyone for the photos and reports and congratulations to John Reed. Way back in 1999 some N. broussonetii seed generously sent to me by Harold Koopowitz was sown. Now, after 20 years waiting, it has finally flowered. Either it…

Tazettas Seeding in cold, wet conditions

Weather conditions here in Moss Landing, California have been pathetic for the last 3 months or so from a hybridization standpoint—or so I thought, based on a lifetime of what to expect when conditions are pretty consistently cold and rainy.…

Tazettas by Bill Welch

I wanted to share the many wonderful tazettas supplied by Bill Welch in California, like him my favorite division is 8 and the division I mostly hybridize in. I have many unusual crosses in the works but only time will…