Hi All, A message to New Zealand members that Betty Bowers, a previous President and current Vice Patron of the National Daffodil Society passed away in Blenheim yesterday. Although not active on the daffodil front in recent years Betty was…
Year: 2016
Shaw Nature Reserve MOBOT Poet Types
These are blooms from bulbs collected at SNR during one of GSLDS digs. I divide the clumps and line them out in my garden to grow and bloom. These appear 1 to 3 years after digging, and the color range…
Overlooked Koopowitz Seedling
Today when I started to prune the roses, I noticed a nice seedling at the base of a rose – one of Harold’s from POPS Legacy x Emerald Sea. Apparently it had escaped while repotting and mistakenly was cast aside.…
To cheer those of you suffering winter.
This is perhaps one of our most unusual seasons. I suppose one says that nearly every year. Now we have a mixture of autumn daffodils and those that flower in mid-winter in Southern California. Despite the rest of the state…
Different colour of N. cantabricus luteolentus and N. cantabricus luteolentus x N. triandrus pallidulus at two locations in Spain
The plants in the pictures are flowering in the greenhouse. The species and their crosses with the deeper yellow flowers are from a site near Torre de Juan Abad which I know from Gerd Knoche; the others are from St. Elena.…
Crosses of jonquilla hybrids with viridiflorus hybrids
Three weeks ago I saw that some new seedlings of jonquilla hybrids x viridiflorus hybrids growing outdoors had flower buds. Up to this time we had no frost, but soon it would freeze and snow and perhaps the flowers would be…