Month: February 2013

A travelog in Galicia

Jan and Lynne Dalton are currently in Spain and will be there for several months looking for wild daffodils. They are contributing a a travelog to the UK Daffodil Society and Northern Group sites. To access the Northern group site…

Lima’s Green Goddess 8G-G

This is the late Manuel Lima’s ‘Lima’s Green Goddess’, 8G-G. A cross of Avalanche x N. viridiflorus which was Selected and named by Dr. Harold Koopowitz. This has increased enough that this summer, I will be able to plant out…

Summer Flowers Otaki Show

Wayne Hughes and Spud Brogden

The Otaki Horticultural Society held our Dahlia and Gladioli Show on Friday1 and Saturday 2 February .Several well known Daffodil breeders and exhibitors are also excellent gladioli breeders and exhibitors .We were very pleased to have Spud Brogden and Wayne…

Bulbocodium Hybrid Diversity, Color, Height, Size

The three photos illustrate the tremendous range of height, form, and color, encountered when crossing named and/or hybrid bulbocodium type cultivars. The first two photos show extreme size and height differences although the flowers look similar. The last shows the…