Month: June 2010

Plunging Bulbs

Hello Everyone, Last weekend I attended an Alpine GS study weekend. It was interesting in a talk on trilliums  of America’s West Coast the speaker noted that many trilliums didn’t appear this year. I must say that as Leitha and…

inquiry

Many of you will be familiar with the Pannill introduced daffodil cultivar, ‘Peggy White’ 2 W-W.  The real Peggy White seeks to purchase some the daffodil bulbs named in her honor.  She probably wants 12-24 bulbs.  Does anyone know of…

Bulbs in pots and other info

To all you wonderful, knowlegeable “Daffneters” I always love the daffodil pics and news about the various judgings but the recent discussions about the actual growing in pots , ants disbursing seeds and other planting information have been even more…

Growing in pots

Dear All   When our bulbs have finished flowering we tend to move the pots out of the greenhouse or the outside covered beds. Terry returns her miniatures back into the sand plunges. These are used to keep the pots at a constant temperature…

Sad news from the UK

Dear All Yesterday evening I learned of the death of Jack Wood, whose funeral took place last Friday. Jack was 89 Jack wrote for many, many years for Garden News here in the UK and using public transport only (He…