Day: September 16, 2015

Breeding down

The project of breeding highly bred modern daffodils towards miniatures is starting to yield promising results. This one started miniature but is now 60mm This little one is completely unexpected. It is a first flower and it is hard to…

Beautiful Pedigree 2

Fortescue is my favorite double. Its pollen (almost certainly) onto Nynja gave Iterate I think out of an interest in Seraglio, Kung Fu (2Y-R) was crossed with Decoy (01_236). Florence Joy 2W-W crossed with 01_236 gave 06_213. Iterate is so…

Around the Show

Some of the flowers in the Canberra show will warm hearts elsewhere. One of the sensations was a superb smooth specimen of Mesa Verde shown by Chris Ryan. Graham showed some pictures of some of my splits. Champion div.11 was…