General

DaffSeek Update

by  •  • 8 Comments

More improvements to what is already, BY FAR, the best flower database on the web.

 

Many thanks to Ben and Nancy for doing all of the computer grunt work, and thanks to the entire international daffodil community for their photographs and other efforts.

 

Mike Kuduk

 


=2 width=”100%” align=center tabindex=-1>


8 comments for “DaffSeek Update”

  2. Absolutely right, Phyllis. There are not enough Thank-You’s and awards available to recognize Ben and nNncy and the amazing things they are doing with Daffseek. All other plant societies should be green with envy and peeing their pants!
    Thank you, Ben and Nancy.
    Bill Lee

    —-


  3. Bill…You are too much!
    At 12:38 PM 2/24/2011 -0500, title= wrote:

    Absolutely right, Phyllis. There are not enough Thank-You’s and awards available to recognize Ben and nNncy and the amazing things they are doing with Daffseek. All other plant societies should be green with envy and peeing their pants!
     
    Thank you, Ben and Nancy.
    Bill Lee

    —-


  4. Bill…You are too much!
    At 12:38 PM 2/24/2011 -0500, title= wrote:

    Absolutely right, Phyllis. There are not enough Thank-You’s and awards available to recognize Ben and nNncy and the amazing things they are doing with Daffseek. All other plant societies should be green with envy and peeing their pants!
     
    Thank you, Ben and Nancy.
    Bill Lee

    —-

  5. Dear Ben and Nancy.
    We all love you for your modesty and we also know you’ll never change – but what you do is so truly amazing that some of us have difficulty keeping up – you set up easy information that we did not even know we wanted until we find that it is so essential we wonder why we didn’t think of it before. You two are so ahead of the game – it only takes a simple question and you came up with incredible answers!!  I suspect daffodils are now better served from a genealogical point of view than humans!! Certainly I know more about daffodil pedigrees that I know about my own  – and I suspect many in Ireland (because of the big fire in Dublin) and elsewhere are in the ‘same boat’.
    So thanks for all you do for all of us – keep your imaginations whirring !! You’re too young to ‘rest on your laurels’ – gee, I’m full of cliches !! 
    Brian

  6. Dear Ben and Nancy.
    We all love you for your modesty and we also know you’ll never change – but what you do is so truly amazing that some of us have difficulty keeping up – you set up easy information that we did not even know we wanted until we find that it is so essential we wonder why we didn’t think of it before. You two are so ahead of the game – it only takes a simple question and you came up with incredible answers!!  I suspect daffodils are now better served from a genealogical point of view than humans!! Certainly I know more about daffodil pedigrees that I know about my own  – and I suspect many in Ireland (because of the big fire in Dublin) and elsewhere are in the ‘same boat’.
    So thanks for all you do for all of us – keep your imaginations whirring !! You’re too young to ‘rest on your laurels’ – gee, I’m full of cliches !! 
    Brian

  7. Ben and Nancy, you have once again received many well-deserved kudos!  Thanks for all  you do for us.  Thanks go also to Lachlan Keown who contributed the “straw-man” crosses feature which should be of great interest to hybridizers.  I remember John Lea having a notebook with half-pages.  He could then have the pedigree of one flower on the top half-page, and then check the possibilities by putting the pedigree of other flowers on the bottom half.  Now we can do the same thing, much quicker and easier, using DaffSeek.  Many thanks to all involved!
     
    Mary Lou

  8. Ben and Nancy,  I am overwhelmed!!  Can’t wait to start seeing what this will do for me.
    Thanks loads, and also thanks to Lachlan for his contribution.  Boy!  When I think of the hours I spent going through the paper Data Bank printout and recording the pedigrees, one item at a time, by hand in a notebook!
    The Daffodil community is so lucky to have you.  I am sure glad you didn’t get interested in some other plant.  Has anyone ever tried to find photos on the Hemerocallis site?  You might just say there are none, since there are so few.  Maybe we feel lucky because we have so many computer nerds and computer nerd wannabee’s in our group.  We like this stuff, and keep encouraging you to do more.
    Donna
    —

Comments are closed.