Month: February 2015

Daffodils in Louisiana

I am growing many cultivars in clay in west central Louisiana to determine their suitability for such a southern location. I will compile my data for an upcoming journal article. Additionally, I will test selected cultivars in a location much…

February Flowers

The little double out of Glowing Red x N. dubius that I mentioned yesterday is now properly developed. Flower diameter is just over 40 mm. Coronal segments are a pale lemon-cream which does not contrast with the white tepals and thus…

N. poeticus in Austria

Has anyone searched for N. poeticus in Austria lately?  Matthew Zandbergen wrote, in the 1971 March Daffodil Journal, about great fields of them.  There is a Narzissenfest in Bad Aussee each year in May.  If you Google narcissus in Austria,…