Sid Dubose’s charming intermediate, N. ‘Brooke Ager’ usually has a faint hint of pink in its perianth when grown under my conditions. So it should not be too surprising that when it was crossed with N. gaditanus that it yielded…
On Tuesday, 08 April, from 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., the Greater Saint Louis Daffodil Society will once again host our annual Shaw Nature Reserve Daffodil Dig Day in Gray Summit, Missouri. Have any interest in digging historic daffodils of known and…
Unusually early and perfectly Intermediate in scale. This has flowers at 64mm (about 2 1/2″) in diameter and 9″ tall. The flowers are smooth and well balanced. Nice orange trumpet for such an early flower.
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Tom Hendren and his wife Linda entered two daffodils for the Roger’s Gardens daffodil show and both blooms won a ribbon. Tom was looking at the winning daffodil table and I asked if I could photograph him and post his…
This past weekend Roger’s Gardens in Corona Del Mar California, hosted an early daffodil show. It was wonderful to see the number of people who walked in with their handful of daffodils to enter into the show. Sally Snipes from…
Pink perianths are still as rare as hen’s teeth. John Reed has made a few standard P-P daffodils and Brian Duncan made Pink Perry although outside of N.Ireland it usually comes with a yellow perianth. Both Bob Spott’s and I…