Category: Seedling

Photographs and discussions about seedlings.

Early Canberra 1Y-O

Anything that flowers in August in Canberra counts as early, possibly more so this year.This is possibly my best early orange trumpet. 16_11 {(Lemon Sails x Lutana) x [(Redlands Too x Impeccable) x Silcock 1Y-O)]}   The Silcock flower is…

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?  …