Year: 2011

Winter colour

As the daffodils begin to peer the geraniums start to wane but still give a nice bit of colour in the sun room. In last years severe winter we lost more than 50 plants through complacency – they had always…

NIDG 35th

A couple more photos. The 3 founder members present cut the cake, William Thompson, Brian Duncan and John Bownass. Ladies who served the tea, Denise Wallace (hard woprking secretary and caterer),Deirdre Cairns (past chairman), and Sandra Wilson (our floral art…

NIDG 35th anniversary

Hi All, At the recent november meeting the Northern Ireland daffodil Group celebrated the 35th anniversary of its formation in 1976. The very special guest speaker was janis Ruksans from Latvia. Janis has introduced many bulbs from his journeys in…

from the office of the ADS ED

Season’s Greetings to all! This is a reminder to all that have recently received an RHS Yearbook, to please send in your payment right away. I always endeavor to have no carry-over of accounts receivables from the previous year. So…

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Also flowering now, this has been registered as ‘Verdant Sparks’. The cross was N.jonquilla x N. viridiflorus. It has inherited the delicious jonquilla fragrance. Harold