Over the last 14 years I’ve been trying to perfect my raising of seedlings so I can get flowers in 5 years. Previous years I’ve gotten blooms in typically 6-8 years. I’ve concluded 3 things have helped. Plant seed ASAP…
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…
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…
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…
I keep good records on crosses and seed set. This year has been a banner year. Past years I’ve made between 30 and 55% of my crosses actually making seed. This year it is at ~80% and the number of…
I had a beautiful Julia Jane bloom early this spring and of course I need to put some pollen on the flower. I had two flowers. The first I put on Div 2 pollen. It did not take. The second…