Month: March 2017

Lobby Displays at the ADS National Show in Sacramento

Maria Krenek's Artistic Design

Here are three photos of the displays in the lobby of the Capital Ballroom at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Sacramento where the national show was held March 10 and 11, 2017. Maria Krenek from Eureka, California prepared this…

Identification help (virus)

I bought a bag of yellow daffodils 1 year ago,  they were all the same variety, but there was a pair of bulbs ‘variegated?‘. I don’t know if it’s just another variety or something else.  Thanks if someone could help…

More French pics

I will use the one on the left instead of the standard pic of daff parts. On the far right, Tazetta narcissus, of course, but why “doubtful” narcissus on the left of that?

Interesting French daffodil drawings

I found this page at the Chicago Botanic Garden Library some years ago and will excise a few blooms for illustrations in our show schedule which I am putting to bed now. I don’t recall the date of the publication,…

First florets

My daffodil season began this morning with 3 daffodils flowering. Sometimes tazettas flower here in February. This year they are relatively late, presumably because we have had a long warm summer without strong temperature or moisture signals to initiate the…