Here is a picture of ‘Verdant Sparks’ pollen. Perhaps Theo can give us an opinion if it might be fertile from just looking at it. I would expect it to be triploid. Theo do you have a recipe for germinating…
Verdant Sparks Pollen
Year: 2012
New viridiflorus hybrid
The first seedling of (( Pontresina x ( Edna Earl x Rashee )) x N. viridiflorus flowers in the greenhouse. I think in the next year it will have more than one flower per stem. The pollen is highly fertile,…
In flower today.
There is quite a variety of flowers out now. I consider them the late autumn daffodils. In the USA the first day of winter starts after the solstice on December 21. Here are three that I photographed this afternoon. …
Camden Festival on tv
If you get the “Create” Channel, or any other special PBS programs, be alert for a 2012 P. Allen Smith program titled “Bulbs of Spring.” It contains a segment about the Daffodil Festival in Camden, Arkansas, a brief visit with…
‘Yuletide’ – 10W-W
This is a large pan of my ‘Yuletide’ that was watered in early September. Many buds to come on this pan with several more pots to flower that were held dry and watered in early October. This is the earliest…
11b is the norm
Less than 10 of about 220 splits named in the last 12 years are 11b yet 11b appears to be the normal configuration for lobing and splitting. This became an area of interest for me when the strange split 98/3MT…