Month: July 2009

Tall tales

This is an interesting contrast. The short vase is Yellow Gold , the established market leader here for earlys. It is the variety I featured about 2 weeks ago,  — almost finished now. The very tall vase is sdlg  06 …

sdlgs

Hi again, Spent an hour ,late Sunday , assessing some  early cutflower sdlgs.These are third year down. Main criteria when making the cross was earlyness and stem length. All are sdlg  x  sdlg  —  all have either Malvern City  ,…

togetherness

Hi  Daffnetters,  Rather quiet on daffnet  —  between seasons. Still very slow here in not so sunny Otaki,  —  like Peter R , we are having more frosts than normal. Also , to many days like today, —  sun just…

Summer visitor

As Daffnet is quiet at the moment, I thought that this picture might be of interest to some of you. For several years a pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa  striata ) have nested in or around our garden. They are about…

Hip hip hoorah!!!!!!

There is still five mintues to go, but I want to be the the first to say Hoorah for the USA!!! and Happy Independence Day!!! and Happy Birthday to Suzy Wert!!!!   Chriss Rainey