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…
Category: Hybridizing
Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.
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…
N. serotinus and a ‘Grand Monarque’ question
All, Attached is a photo of what I think (hope) is the first N. serotinus that I’ve flowered. The perigonial tube is looking like an inverted wine bottle, which is characteristic of this species, correct? The scape is also the…
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…
pinwheel form
The breeding tradition has gone to a lot of trouble to eliminate the pinwheel form that is natural to some daffodils. It can be a very attractive form but developing it in daffodils with good substance texture and color won’t…
winter tazettas
Thanks John for the photos and reports. Wilf was very proud of Avalex and justifiably so. Canberra winters are not kind to tazettas. All considered my Gramon series do pretty well with some protection. Gramoneed. Gramonora. This year one stem…