It is tazetta heaven here at the moment. The autumn has been very warm and very dry but, with the help of hand watering, the tazettas are thriving. Usually I like bright colors but this is my favorite at the…
Autumn tazettas; seed
Category: Seedling
Photographs and discussions about seedlings.
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…
Summer census
By the end of summer 7 tazetta varieties have flowered: – two 8Y-O, one 8W-Y and four 8W-O. The first, 14_05T is quite nice. It still has a few florets in flower. Six days later 16_01T opened. Two days ago…
Fred Silcock’s Pride and Glory
A “tradition” of the Kyneton Daffodil Show, a “must-see” for those with a hunger for innovative breeding was a display, usually of five vases of Fred Silcock’s seedlings. Here are five vases from those shows, for a wider audience to…
Chinese Sacred Lily highly fertile offspring
I produced the first ever batch of Single Chinese Sacred Lily seeds about 10 years ago using pollen from various true tazettas. Many excellent big vigorous polyploid plants resulted, including this one which is ridiculously fertile! It closely resembles and…
First Flowers Downunder
This year most of the tazettas were planted early, shaded, and watered. In spite of high temperatures one seedling 14_05T has flowered earlier than any daffodil has flowered here. It is a clear outlier and it will be interesting to…