Category: Hybridizing

Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.

Clive Postles with Astrid’s Memory

While on the Kiwi Tour of the World Daffodil Convention we visited Clive Postles at his home and gardens at Old Cottage, Purshull Green near Chaddesley Corbett, near Worcester, England.  Here is Clive in his greenhouse with two beautiful blooms…

Altun Ha

Dear All,   Turned on the Sci-Fi Channel while eating some graham crackers and peanut butter.  Pseudoscience about crystal skulls, but Altun Ha is the name of an ancient Mayan community in Belize (where daffodils don’t get vernalized). Best, Don

World Tour/Holland–Hein’s place

A group inspecting a bright yellow Div. 6 daffodil that really stood out in Hein Meeuwissen’s field–I have a note that it is one of Carlos Van der Veek’s seedlings.  Some of them were double-headed and I’d be interested in…

last daffodils of spring

Friends, This is my May 10 bouquet this year.  I’ve gathered up the remains of anything still looking halfway decent.  The 4 on the right are named cultivars; the others are seedlings.   It was a glorious day today, and…

Last Flowers of 2008

The last seedling to bloom flowered 3 days after our last show.  It is a green eyed 3W-GYR  from ‘Picasso’ x ‘Omaha’                                     …

Last daffodils of 2008

These are the last of the poets to flower with me.  Both seedlings, sdg div9 ref1 reflexes quite a bit and the othe seedling is div9 W-GGY; no red rim so it might not belong to div 9  ???  …