Day: March 18, 2013

Daffnet Reminder Messages

The current Daffnet is a web forum for people interested in growing, showing, hybridizing, or photographing daffodils. The previous version of Daffnet was an email mailing-list forum which had the one advantage of automatically delivering new messages, but had many…

Miniature 1YYW-W and Inbreeding

This is a strongly contrasted Miniature 1YYW-W that measures 43mm in diameter. It is a cross of two sister seedlings that were sown in 1988. The siblings chosen to line breed have the strongest reverse coloration. It has ‘Gipsy Queen’…

Pink perianths

We had several miniature flowers with pink perianths at Murphys this year. Perhaps the best was a flower bred by Bob Spotts from Pink China with Ho Ho Kam. The latter is a small jonquilla hybrid of his own breeding.…

Weird and Wonderful: Spotts does it again!

We have just returned from the Murphys show at Ironstone Vineyards. Tucked away in one corner and ignored by nearly everyone, including its owner, was one of the most unusual daffodils that I have ever seen. When I  saw it…