To all Daffodil Photographers below the Equator,
While at the World Daffodil Convention last September in Dunedin, Ben and I were asked about Aussie and Kiwi photos still needed in DaffSeek. Here is a link that has two spreadsheets of Aussie and Kiwi daffodils, sequenced by daffodil name, that do not have photos in DaffSeek. These are in spreadsheet format so you can sort it in a sequence useful for you.
We are looking forward to enjoying many photos on Daffnet of your upcoming season! If you have any questions, please email me at .
Many Thanks,
Ben and Nancy
Hi Ben and Nancy,
Thanks as always for your great work. Unfortunately I bought my digital camera just a couple of years too late – my extensive collection had already been severely culled.
It occurs to me that it might be helpful to include a field on the spreadsheet that shows the number of times a flower has been a parent. Indexing it from high to low would then indicate the most important breeding flowers for which we do not have photos. Given that ideally we would like to have more than one photo (from different sources), my guess is that breeders would appreciate a list of daffodils from all around the world: – sorted according to the number of times they’ve been a parent; for which there is no photo or only one photo in daffseek. I notice for instance that you, Ben, are the only one to have submitted a photo of Goldcourt, so it could be a surprising list.
P.S. I’ve just found some photos of daffodils that Rodney Emmerson showed in Leongatha in 2008. Will send when I have some time to look through them. I’m sure there are a number of people who can do wonders.
Hi Lawrence and all,
Almost half of the daffodils in DaffSeek do not have photos or historical images (>10,000)! Since a list this long can be overwhelming, our approach is to focus on groupings each season. In this case, we were specifically asked for these two lists. To make it easy to generate these lists, only essential information for identification is provided. To provide anything more than this can be burdensome and time consuming, hence these short and sweet versions.
Hybridizers usually send DaffSeek information and photos at the time of registration (many thanks!). so the majority registrations since 2006 have current photos.
Additionally, Janet Hickman of Virginia has volunteered to scan slides or prints of needed daffodil photos for DaffSeek. If you have any questions, please contact Janet at or send your prints or slides to:
Janet G. Hickman, MD, FAAD
107 Lee Circle
Lynchburg, VA 24503
Thank you Janet and Many thanks to you all,
Ben and Nancy
Trying to turn around ROBIN”S REWARD. It should be in full bloom tomorrow, so a photo will be taken and sent.
Thanks Nancy,
Your lists are very much appreciated.
My suggestion was informed by a couple of understandings.
Firstly, I am very much aware that there are many more names in Australian catalogues than are on Daffseek. For example, I pull out Hancock’s 1961-2 catalogue and almost instantly find “Yarra” H.A. Brown 1b. I did not trouble myself with the many names like this when I created my own database because it seemed unlikely that very many of them are meaningful anymore. I think the same probably applies to many of the names that ARE on Daffseek. So when I think of missing photos of daffodils I think of daffodils that are significant. One easy measure of this (but of course not the only one) is whether it has been used as a parent. Using my old database I cut the Australian list from 2799 to 192 and the NZ list from to 2264 to 31. There are some really important and surprising flowers on those lists.
Secondly, I am very aware that Australia and NZ have been importing daffodils for over a hundred years, so whereas there are probably not many old Australian and NZ daffodils in the US and UK the reverse is not the case. So it is not wrong to produce a worldwide list of needed photos for our upcoming season. Again, using my old database I came up with the following:
DAWNGLOW 86 GOLDEN CITY 34 BEACON 39 RENOWN 32 DIMITY 29 BONNINGTON 29 MONARCH 25 MELISSA 24 PORTIA 22 SINCERITY 21 WARBIN 21 PINKEEN 20 BLODWEN 20 WARFLAME 19 MARY BLEWITT 19 IVO FELL 19 SPELTER 18 ASKELON 18 FAHAN 18 WHITEFOORD 18 GOLDEN ROBIN 18 DEPENDABLE 17 C.E. RADCLIFF 16 LILLIAN MURDOCH 16 PIGEON 15 DAVA 14 TRENOON 14 ST ALOYSIUS 14 GLENSHESK 14 MAID OF THE MIST 14
Many of these are Australian but I would not be surprised flowers such as Spelter, Askelon, Pigeon, Dava, Trenoon etc are grown here.
I hope these thoughts help,
Lawrence