Thank you, Paul Botting for posting pictures! Blog: www.gloucesterdaffodils.blogspot.com The Garden Club of Gloucester 60th Annual Daffodil Show held Saturday, March 27, and Sunday, March 28, at the Page Middle School, Gloucester, Virginia, attracted 1,752 blooms entered by 134 exhibitors…
Month: March 2010
Fw: Gloucester VA Daffodil Show (Msg 9) Golden Spur (1885) a 1 Y-Y
After Aflame is Golden Spur (1885) a 1 Y-Y about which A.M. Kirby in his 1910 book “Daffodils Narcissus and How to Grow Them” says “if (I) could have but one daffodil (I) would chose this” .
Fw: Gloucester VA Daffodil Show (Msg 8) Aflame (3W-YOO 1938).
Susan Perrin of Mare? Neck?, VA won a red ribbon with Aflame (3W-YOO 1938). It is striking but I’m told the cup fades with the slightest provocation.
Fw: Gloucester VA Daffodil Show (Msg 7) White Lady (3W-Y 1887)
Fw: Gloucester VA Daffodil Show (Msg 6) White Lady (3W-Y 1887)
Pinks and frozen paper whites
Some of our paper whites really got frozen this winter. The front row is Avalanche, then I think Grand Monarque with all of the foliage damage, Grand Primo behind that with other varieties in the background. Avalanche of Gold lost…