Month: July 2015

Northern Daffodil Club Early Table Show

Hi All, The Northern Daffodil Club held its Early Table Show last Monday night at Hamilton Gardens. A good turnout of growers and flowers provided for a very enjoyable evening. There was considerable improvement in the quality of flowers from…

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…

Lifting bulbs

I’m in Zone 7a, Central Virginia.  We’ve had crazy, wet weather, but it’s mostly been hot and humid. This month I’ve lifted EVERYTHING from a 15 year old daffodil bed in order to rototil it and enrich the soil.  Since it is the…

An aid for filling show tubes

Midwest Daffodil Society member Rose Finnegan saw us queue up for the limited number of squeeze bottles at past shows and brought these to this year’s show. They are available at beauty shops. The label reads: Salon Care Locking Adjustable…