The beds with the heaters are covered with a wooden frame with double transparent polycarbonat on top and sealed up with film and soil at the sides. Before sealing a substance against snails is spread. To hold the temperature low during the…
The seed corns shown in ‘Many seeds 1’ are not all I harvested this year. Indeed I got about 36690 from 201 different crosses. 26000 seeds were planted very close together, because my heated seed beds are designed for 10000 seed…
The good and homogeneous looking seeds are from a cross of ((Royal China x (Assertion x Amadeus)). Normally there are no problems to get seed from such crosses of standard daffodils. More complicated it is to obtain seeds from…
Hi Daffnetters, This is a delightful wee species grown from imported seed. My mind has been inventing crosses for it, seems to me to need some split corona pollen. Has anyone attempted a cross like that? Your thoughts are…
Not a daffodil but a miniature amaryllid from the Mediterranean and is always the first bulb to herald the autumn daffs. It is Hanonia hesperidium. harold
A couple of my favourite white miniatures, which don’t need introduction. Snipe of course is a very good fertile parent variety, which I use extensively when I cross it with the cyclamineus species and other white fertile hybrid/seedlings. Xit, no doubt…