Day: July 21, 2015

Winter bulbocodiums

It has been a cold frosty winter here and many flowers are later than usual. The tazettas in the field are miserable. The paperwhites are miserable too but they seem a little more hardy. The viridiflorus hybrids in the field…

Jonquil seedling in flower

Hi all I recently posted a picture of a bulbocodium seedling flowering in two years time from seed. And then this weekend a jonquil opened, also about two years from seed. It is from seed from Lawrence Trevanion, the cross…

In Flower This Week

The pot of romieuxii has probably reached it’s best. The earliest blooms have lasted nearly two weeks. The colour is most accurate in this photo Wilfred Hall’s ‘Beesknees’ is a lovely miniature tazetta. Sadly it flowers too early for our…