Month: August 2009

uses for bulbs

Picking up on the hospice theme – we have donated bulbs to a long-term/extended rehab facility that has a hort rehab program, so the patients get to plant the bulbs in the fall then watch them bloom in the spring……

Emailing: N.viridiflora sdg., N.jonq. X N.tr.concolor, DSCN0105, Fencourt Jewel.

  This N.viridiflora seedling is a very early and interesting crossing: 24/88a (Peres X viridiflora) according to John Hunter.  It flowers very early, May-June, (autumn-early winter) when there is hardly anything in flower, a welcome addition to this time of…

disappointing bulbs

As I read the messages from our friends Down Under, one thing strikes me — the number of ‘beautiful flowers but not of show bench quality’ comments.  If your efforts to produce new flowers result in this assessment, I don’t…