Month: April 2012

N. ‘Prime Target’ 1W-O

  Who needs petals with trumpets like these? For more than five weeks these flowers of ‘Prime Target’ have been in my fridge – they have just failed to make it to our local show on Saturday.     Outside…

Harrogate Spring Flower Show

Tony James has posted the best bloom on daffnet.   More pictures and comments may be found on the Northern Group website at the following link   http://daffodils.thenortherngroup.co.uk/?p=1000   James Akers

Harrogate Show

  Hello all,   The first day of the Harrogate Show was held today. This is in the north of England and is organised by the Northern Group of the Daffodil Society on behalf of the North of England Horticultural…

American Daffodil Society Challenge Cup

Due to the necessity to guard the silverware, we sometimes do not bring out the various trophies at the American Daffodil Society’s national show. This year, the trophies were on display. (The time before was at Chicago in 2009.) I…

A Miniature Grex

Grex is latin for flock. It is a term used by hybridizers when talking about the seedlings resulting from a specific cross. As in a flock of sheep or a swarm of bees, they all look about the same from…