Another Wilf Hall tazetta, growing very well at my place. Wilf said it was to early for show but to good to dump. W T H M X – 44 breeding Matador x tazetta sdlg. Usually 6 – 9 flowers…
tazetta
Month: July 2011
tazetta
Hi Daffnetters, A bit slow with photos for this southern season. We started very early with record warm temperatures in May and near record temps for June.I,ve been busy with very early cutflowers. Started market flowers in June and have…
Mycorrhizae
Friends, I am writing from memory right now, which is increasingly dangerous, as the passage of time has made me a little less confident in my knowledge base. Nonetheless, here is what I recall: First, the term mycorrhizae literally translates…
off topic – Caterpillars
Sorry for the off topic subject, but I woke up this morning to a large amount of these caterpillars walking all over the area around where I had many yards of fresh custom mixed soil delivered this week. They are…
Tiger Swallowtail on Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium Purpureum)
A little more nature, what’s behind the green door
Not many daffodils on daffnet yet, so here’s my favorite butterfly caterpillar. The Spicebush Butterfly caterpillar. It’s main line of defense is concealment. After spreading a film of silk on the centerline of the spicebush leaf (lindera benzoin) the leaf…