Year: 2014

Autumn tazettas

Mary Lou Gripshover wanted me to explain about using the name N. obsoletus instead of N. elegans, and what was N. x obsoletus? Here is my response. As I understand it N. x obsoletus was thought by Maire to be…

Planting hope one daffodil at a time…

Growing Together planting site

Cindy Haeffner, from Hermann, MO, continues to spread the joy of daffodils with another wonderful day of planting at the “Growing Together” planting site! We just posted an article on our Greater St Louis Daffodil Society blog about this festive…

Last final encore

Just as the very last flowers of the very late poet wither a bulbocodium decides to send up a last flower. With temperatures of 35C what was it thinking? Not surprisingly, most seed pods have ripened.

Two types of N. cavanillesii

   One year ago I got two bulbs of a special type of N. cavanillesii from Gerd Knoche which probably comes from south of Agadir/Morocco. It is bigger than the Spanish form  and nearly every adult bulb  flowers whereas  from hundred…