Day: March 16, 2013

Need Help with a Historic

‘Minor Monarque’ sold by  Old House Gardens  gives the date as 1809. Can it be shown as a Historic, as Daffseek says “pre 1998” (it’s not registered w/RHS).  I can’t find it at all in the Show and Grow. Can it be entered as a…

Standard 1Y-O – Very Early

This is a very early 1Y-O, Season 1, Standard seedling selection. It is V06-32-17 = [(Pumpkin Ridge x Misquote) x (Tuscarora x Glen Clova)]. It has Glen Clova on both sides of its parentage. It has won the Oregon Daffodil Society…

Kirkham Show , Lancashire. UK

Dear All,               Today I judged my first show of the season at Kirkham, Lancashire just North of Preston and not far from Blackpool on the North West Coast, The Cold weather of the…

How do they do that?

Several weeks ago, I bought a 4-inch pot of ‘Tete-a-Tete’ to use on a buffet table.  There were about a dozen stems open.  These faded, and the dead flowers–about a dozen–were snipped off.  But more stems continued to open.  Today I snipped…