Month: November 2013

John Hunters seedling bed.

So that’s what a professional seedling bed looks like!  I wished I could have spent more time with John Hunter, but my wife planned to see everything on the North and South Island in 3 1/2 weeks.  We saw more…

Edgedin Gold & Picotee Types

The Miniature picotee flower of ‘Edgedin Gold’ came from a large number of ‘Baby Moon’ seed open pollinated. The seed was planted in 1989. I’ve never been pleased with the consistency of the picotee edge with the clone selected for…

Narcissus x xanthochlorus

  At October 15, 2009 Harold sent a photo to Daffnet of a flower from a cross ‘N. cavanillesii x N. viridiflorus’. He made this cross in 2003. In this year I did the same. Ten years  later I got…

My NZ vacation

When in NZ visit the Daffodil breeders.  A few photo’s to follow.   John Hunter Has  beautiful yard and lots of daffodil stories.  John Hunter and my wife Teri.    

Fertility update – Div.7

The foundational fertile jonquil/main division hybrids are, of course, Limequilla Hillstar and Quickstep (and perhaps Gertrude Nethercote). The key problem is how to reliably introduce the genetics of the best main division hybrids into this group. It is now clear…