Month: June 2015

Northern Daffodil Club Early Early Show

Hi All, On June 15th the Northern Daffodil Club staged its early, early table show as part of the club meeting. This is the first time the club has staged a show so early in the season and it gave…

Spoiling parents?

I have been crossing daffs for the last four years. I use blooms not good enough to show for parents and originally had high rates of viable seed. However, I now grow the bulbs deeper and in larger pots and…

June Blooms

A couple of my Graham Phillips flowers that are being turned around in Western WA.  A very pretty 2Y-YYO unnamed seedling and 2Y-Y which was supposed to be Champeen.  Champeen is a 2W-Y so I’m thinking it is mis labeled. …

Bulbocodium

Hi Everyone. I thought that daffnetters might be interested in this flower. Apologies for the poor photograph. The flower is not of any great significance but the fact that it flowered 15 months after the seed was sown is. My…

The generation of fertile allotetraploid hybrids of narcissus species by chromosome doubling

This spring I found many diploid pollen grains on one plant of Hawera and three plants of Fairy Chimes. These species hybrids were transformed with Oryzalin from diploids to tetraploids or mixoploids. More information you will find in the PDF file The…

2015 OAKWOOD CATALOG

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