Month: April 2008

World Daffodil Tour – Clive Postles’ Field

Those who visited Clive Postles during the Daffodil Society Centenary in 1998 will remember a large field of daffodils. This picture shows what Clive is still keeping. The shade cloth serves as a wind break around two sides of the…

World Daffodil Tour – Clive Postles

The last grower we visited was Clive Postles. He has stopped exhibiting and has greatly reduced the number of daffodils he keeps. The bulk of the named cultivars is now kept by Roger and Terry Braithwaite. Only the Kiwi group…

World Daffodil Tour – Coughton Court Sphere

Coughton Court south is the ancestral estate of the Throckmorton family. It is now open for public tours. The sphere behind the house was donated by the American descendants of the Throckmorton family. Names of the donors are inscribed inside…