Month: April 2008

Mother Hess daffodil

Dear all, I am so proud; Handy Hatfield is going to name this for me:  Mother Hess; LOL. I am not very good at photographing mini’s, this is really a deeper color than the photo. It is Mite open pollinated;…

more on Black Tips

Nanstallon is another trumpet (1 Y-Y) with black apical spots, open now.  The spots do not show in The Grange, Bell Rock, Goldfinger, or Golden Horn.  Among other Division 2 that I checked, Casterbridge and Bob Spotts do not show…

first flower

To the Northern Hemisphere daffnetters   Our first standard daffodil opened a few days ago.  Baldock x Emerald Sea.  Its a pity we are not going to the Convention as we could have taken a Southern Hemisphere flower to compete…

pics of lback spots

  THanks for the black spot pictures. I did not realize many had them ( what percentage roughly from the large daffodils?) One can now wonder what character is connected with this black spot on the chromosome that has been selected…