Category: Seedling

Photographs and discussions about seedlings.

summer tazettas

This summer has been mild and wet in Canberra. The result is that tazettas started flowering in late January and quite a few are flowering a month later, which is still very early by usual standards. 19_67T is a standard…

2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break

Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much.  As a pollen dabber, I…

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…

winter pseudonarcissus

This year, for the first time, I had a pseudonarcissus flower before the winter solstice. It is a Cedric Morris seedling that opened on the 18th of June. The flower finally collapsed a couple of days ago. The first big…