Month: February 2013

6 Miniature Seedlings

An arrangement of 6 Miniature seedlings in flower today. The largest flower in the center top is 42mm. The lower left bulbocodium hybrid is 23mm. Two flowers are from outdoors. Hoping to take a Miniature Daffodil arrangement to display at…

A curiosity

This is a curiosity in more ways than one.  I’ve no idea what the parentage is, and I’ve never seen a daffodil with the pistil extending out like that except on bulbocodiums.  The bloom is in a pot of bulbs…

First Bloom of 2013

  This is my first bloom of the 2013 season. Really pleased that it has eventually bloomed as we have our Winter show this coming Sunday and worried I would have nothing to show. It is an unreg bulb I…

Tiny Yellow compared to average size Miniature

This is a tiny Miniature yellow side by side with an average sized Miniature yellow seedling. The flower on the right is Tanagra x Wee Bee and is 38mm in diameter. The tiny yellow on the left is 24mm (just…

Prolific Lima Seedling

This photo is of part of a patch of Manuel Lima’s seedlings – easily the most prolific of his seedlings I inherited. It’s actually from a group of seedlings from the same unknown cross. I call it “Lima ordinaire”. It’s…

Second generation seedling from viridiflorus

Here is an attractive bloom from ‘Top of the Hill’ x Lima viridiflorus seedling. Diameter is 70mm.  (Lima’s viridiflorus seedling used as pollen parent had a whitish perianth with a green lobed cup, starry in form. Seed parent was unknown.)