Day: November 29, 2009

autumn flowering daffodils

To all, A bit over a year ago, I planted some bulbs of N. cantabricus outdoors (northern Germany) in September/October 2008 and had a few blooming around March 2009.  Those same bulbs and some more that I planted only a…

N. pachybolbus

The following pictures are of what we call N. pachybolbus. You may remember that I caused a bit of controversy last year by challenging the identification of some other flowers in the U.K.as this species. Mine are now in flower.…

NIDG Meeting

Hi,     Ron Scamp from Cornwall was the guest speaker for the ‘Lecture of The Year’ at todays meeting of the Northern Ireland daffodil group.  Ron grows 17 acres of daffodils in Cornwall.  He showed us how the bulbs…