Month: June 2014

ADS Auction Bid Justified …

… when I wasn’t looking.   We just returned from a two week vacation. In the protected place where I had planted it, I found the bloom of KB-BH-10Y-Y-1-13 which bloomed while I was gone. Mike Berrigan had predicted that…

More early multiheads .

The  market  season  here  starts  with  the  early  tazettas  ,  paperwhites    and  other  forms  of  these  very  fragrant  multis  .  The  newer  forms  ,  the  superb  Tahi  and Toru  from  the  Hamilton / Welch   breeding  have  had  excellent…

John Hunter Viridiflorus Seedlings .

It  is  still  very  early  in  the  Kiwi  season  but  several  growers  have  a  range  of  Daffs    showing  their  noses  and  flowering  .Northern  growers  may  relate  to  the  earliness  of  the  season  by  placing  these  flowers  as  flowering  just…

Warning

Dear All, I think something got in to computer after I opened an email from a friend Please do not open anything from me if you get anything as It seems to be sending to everyone  in my address book!…

Miniatures

I guess the time is imminent for Northern Hemisphere growers to be preparing to lift bulbs. Malcolm Wheeler is currently the best exhibitor of miniatures in New Zealand and he espouses the theory that miniature bulbs do not enjoy being…

In Flower this week

Quite a few more bulbocodiums have come into flower this week This pot of Atlas Gold has been lovely and seems to be lasting for a very long time   This is another Bill Dijk seedling, it has a lovely…