Month: March 2015

Fantin-Latour Narcissus Painting

My husband and I were in Seattle recently, and saw this lovely painting by Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour in the Seattle Art Museum.  She was the wife of the more famous painter Henri Fantin-Latour.  Thought you all would enjoy seeing the…

Brown daffodils / Variable flowering time

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Elegans/obsoletus opens greenish brown and then develops to an intense orange. It looks as if this development in the hybrids can be delayed and that both green and brown coronas are possible. 09_02T  x Gold Step. (09_02T is a First…

KDABS meeting March 14

After several years of dormancy, the Kentucky Bulb and Daffodil Society will be holding a re-organizational meeting on Saturday, March 14 at the Paul Sawiyer Library in downtown Frankfort, KY from 2 to 4 PM. The business meeting will include…

Nine Years is a Long Wait.

In 2006 I made a speculative cross between the Havens pink jonquil ‘Pink Setting’ and one of my autumn flowering little greens. I had two ideas in mind at that time. My mini greens all tend to flower in the…