Year: 2012

Daffodil Sales

Any of you that have Home Depot near should know that Home Depot is selling off their bulbs at 50% or better off.  One of our members works at the local Home Depot and said that: Barrett Browning White Lion…

N. cyclamineus x Emerald Sea

I have only one seedling of this cross left which flowers in the greenhouse. Some hundreds were destroyed by frost outdoors before flowering. The seedling has no good form but  the potential of these crosses can be estimated. I shall try it again this…

Little N. triandrus hybrids

A possibility to get little N. triandrus hybrids is to cross N. triandrus pallidulus with Emerald Sea or other  viridiflorus hybrids. The size of the  fllowers in the picture is about 3 cm, the height of the stem about 16 cm. The two…

Looking at Pollen

Harold, The two bigger pollen grains of your photo could be viable and perhaps unreduced or unreduced and doubled. The method of causing the pollen to sprout, and examining it under a microscope has been described by Lawrence Trevanion in “A Look at…