Hi Daffnetters,
Spring is almost charging for a few days for most North Island growers. A warm norwesr front , no frosts ,
warm nights and peaks for the two most well grown commercial daffodil crops — 1 Y Y Malvern City and Erlicheer..
However ,I was very pleased to have a visit on Wednesday of Graeme Phillips , from Hamilton , on of the biggest
commercial growers in the country ,also a leading exhibitor and hybridist.
He is also well known to many West-coast Americans as he has visited there often.
A couple of buckets of beautiful seedlings had me keen to get pollinating , but the day was spent looking at
the garden, flowers and seedlings .
First visit was to his former Waikato mate , Wilfred Hall,
A long look at Wilfs tazettas, and deep discussions on multiheaded doubles ;more on the forgotten division later.