Month: November 2013

More Autumn blooming tazettas

Michael Berrigan visited Bill Welch this past Monday and later with us for dinner that evening.  He brought the tazettas in these photos which are currently blooming in Bills’s field.  Bill Welch grows many tazettas near the Pacific ocean on Montery…

More on division six fertility

Lawrence and all, I enjoyed your post on division six fertility. Some very nice seedlings. I have tried several times to set seed on Rapture and so far have failed. Usually it’s pretty cold when it blooms here perhaps this…

An Autumn Tazetta

Last year in the autumn, Lawrence Trevanion, Wilf Hall, Steve Hampson and myself visited Bill Welch to look at some of his fall blooming tazettas. Bill generously allowed me to dig several clones while they were in flower. I like…

Fertility Update – Div. 6 #2

Lawrence’s excellent post on Div. 6 fertility was much enjoyed. Loved many of the photos. Some truly wonderful flowers in those photos! Well done Lawrence!!! I am surprised that so many of the World Class Div. 6’s from Grant Mitsch…

2013 TITAHI BAY SHOW RESULTS

Titahi  Bay  was  actually  the  first  show  of  the  season ,( Saturday  31  August  and  Sunday  1  September .)Well  supported  by  the  Kapiti  Coast  growers  and  a  good  muster  of  locals  .I  staged  my  flowers  on  the  Friday  evening  and…