Month: August 2015

Beautiful Pedigree

For me a beautiful pedigree is one that transfers good characteristics to surprising places. In this case it is pink from the world class 2Y-R Redlands Too. Turakina is a David Bell 1W-Y (introduced in 1984, not  West and Fell…

Very Early Season

The spring daffodils started a couple of weeks ago here. Species cyclamineus was later this year. I finally managed to split some of the clumps so that they would be less likely to rot. This was done a month or…

Flowering now in Canberra

Hi It always comes in handy to have something small when it comes to hybridizing miniatures. So I was quite delighted to find a tiny (about 6 inches tall) 1W-P in our garden bed. I was even more delighted to…

Special offer

Our President asked that I put this on daffnet. He has already purchased one of the collections. Just click on the link below for details of this wonderful offer. Name:  Hans Rotteveel Email: