DaffNet has a new member who, after reading Kirby’s note about gifting Graham Phillips with the pollen from ‘Millenium Orange’, has a couple questions for those who hybridize. As Mark is uncertain as to how to start a new topic, …
Month: March 2013
A good price on a point and shoot Camera at Costco.
Costco is closing out an underwater, shock resistant, dust resistant camera. The Panasonic DMC-TS4. On sale for $199. Other sites list it at $279. The little research I did says it takes good pics but some have had trouble when…
Miniature Bicolor Trumpet
V95-5-3 is a Miniature 1W-Y from Sprite x Camborne measuring 43mm in diameter. The clump shows the color variance over the life of the flower. This Selection is a year or two away from naming and becoming available. It is…
Judges Refresher
I have been chairman of a daffodil school now for three years and we have been teaching the student judges some changes in the way judging is conducted; 1. Positive judging without a system to tell judges what that is. …
1w-o standard daffodils
Dr John Reed of Oakwood Daffodils is surely making progress in his quest of the elusive 1w-o daffodil. Carefully researched and thoughtout crosses are producing outstanding results. Below are some named and numbered ones bloming in Southaven MS. Certainly Mississippi…
2013 Murphys Show – Miniature Awards
In this third of three posts about the 2013 Murphys show I cover the American Daffodil Society awards for miniature daffodils. The Miniature Gold Ribbon is for the best miniature daffodil excluding the Historic and Container Sections. It happens that…