Category: Science

This category is about the biology of daffodils and narcissus.

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…

Pollination information

I came across my notes from a Theo Sanders presentation on pollination. I had forgotten about this, not sure when it was, but it must have been one of ADS’ virtual Zoom programs: Pollen can last in the fridge for…

Possibilities for Intergeneric Narcissus hybrids

Vagaria parviflora

Lapiedra martinezii and Vagaria parviflora are two species closely related to Narcissus, though not as closely as those in Sternbergia. As the former two are blooming now for me, I collected their pollen and attempted pollinating them with Narcissus pollen…

Selecting bulbs to chip, guidance

All, I plan on chipping bulbs this season and understand that single nosed, round bulbs are what to use. However there are some varieties where the only single-nose bulbs are newly separated off-sets that are definitely *not* round. But, they…