2 comments for “one more–a sneak peak!”

  1. Jason! Makes me want to jump in the car and head to MO.  Thanks for sharing!

    Darrin

  2. You should!  And bring a busload with you!

    I’m attaching to this e-mail two well-traveled images from Keith Kridler of the poets found at SNR in 2005, when the convention visited the site.  These were collected in a relatively small area, clearly demonstrating the rich diversity among the natural hybrids that occur when fertile daffodils are left alone in the same spot for several decades, in habitat that closely mirrors their natural habitat (some in the photo may indeed be selected hybrids or wild variants—poet hybrids were planted and some large, consistent clumps still exist).  These natural hybrids occur not only in the poets but throughout all of the daffodils.  It is so much fun spending a day (or two) walking around investigating the many natural hybrids, some perfect amalgams of their neighboring parents and others highly variable.  I found one such seedling among many, between plantings of ‘February Gold’ and N. obvallaris:  it has all of the good flowering characteristics and colors of ‘FG’ but with obvallaris’ build and blocky corona…and fluting and ruffles for days.  It’s now growing happily in a few clumps in my back yard, and may one day get passed around as something decorative. 

    Hope to see you and many others very soon,

    Jason

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