Month: May 2010

Chelsea Flower Show

Dear All, I thought that you might like to see a couple of pictures from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Jan Pennings won a Gold Medal for his wonderful stand of hyacinths (picture attached) and Johnny Walkers also won a…

Dressing Flowers

I know this has been posted before but this is the ultimate in ensuring your flowers will win a class requiring pendant and reflexed flowers. Some of us do take exhibiting seriously. That’s fine. Some play golf for fun and…

Seedlings 3

Wilf and All,   Crosses of standard daffodils with N. tazetta patulus are possible, but I found till now only Ufo, Loch Coire and Actaea to produce some seeds. An extraordinary  high number of these seedlings has fertile pollen. This…

Attention Australians

Dear Daffnetters, especially our Australian members, Below is a question that came in via DaffSeek from Australian author Jo Hambrett. Jo lives in the Sydney region and her question is below. For those of you who can answer Jo’s question,…

Seedlings 2

  This is ((Pontresina x (Edna Earl x Rahee)) x N. assoanus (NNA) with fertile pollen NA of one chromosome set N and one A from N. assoanus. I didn’t measure the flower diameter but I think it is a little smaller than 50…