Category: Hybridizer

Information from and about hybridizers around the world.

Breeding that does not come true

To the hybridizers out there.  I you cross two daffodils and the resulting seedling bloom so that they don’t favor any of the supposed parents, do you still show them using the cross that you registered. e.g. you cross a…

Judging Miniatures

As a hybridizer is pains me with what I’m seeing on the judging of miniatures at some of our shows.  I have seen miniature bulbocodiums listed in the show as N. bulbocodium 10Y-Y and I have even seen them listed…

2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show-Greenwich, CT Pictures

The 2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show in Greenwich, CT was open to the public on Wed April 20th, and Thursday April 21st. This was the first show in CT in three years. There were more that 1000 blooms at the show…

The future of the ADS

Start them young I say.  Got my granddaughter interested in hybridizing at 3.  Now that she’s 4 she is inspecting her seedlings and helping with pollenating again this season. Has a youth ever won a Carey E. Quinn Award?  …

WDS Show 9-10 April 2022

I’ve decided to continue the show on a new page. The Red, White and Blue – American Bred award collection of 5 stems with names of hybridizer was exhibited by Karen Cogar Williamsburg 2W-W Pannill; Windy City 1W-Y Reed; River…

2022 Livermore Daffodil Show, March 5-6

The 2022 NCDS Daffodil Show at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore (Saturday, March 5, and Sunday, March 6) was an unqualified success. Jacquie Williams-Courtright (Alden Lane Nursery owner) assured a flow of visitors with plentiful advertising of the event. The…