Month: April 2017

Bloom

Kidling blooming today. The season is officially over. Earliest in memory. I also have my first peony blooming Prairie Moon. Azaleas too. Crazy year! Way too early. Naomi  

Tête à Tête in the Sierra de las Nieves

   In March I made a trip to Spain looking for narcissus species. I saw many different sites and visited also the Sierra de las Nieves near Ronda, where in  different kown places Narcissus hispanicus and Narcissus assoanus grow. There…

Later West Coast Blooms

Here is a small collection of daffodils that bloomed in the last couple of weeks, ‘Nancy’s Fancy‘ with ‘Mesa Verde‘ in the background, ‘Rubilina‘, ‘Data Queen‘, and ‘Kenwell Centennial‘.  Today, the only daffodils blooming are ‘Tripartite‘ but what with this…

Sad News_

I learned last night, of the recent death in the UK of Richard Brook. He would have been personally known to older ADS members from his several visits to the USA thirty or more years ago. Richard could only be…

The End of the Season

The daffodils are done for this year, several weeks earlier than usual.  But then they started blooming several weeks earlier, too.  I picked these few blooms this morning:  a couple blooms of ‘Gidget’ (top and left), ‘Final Curtain’ (bottom left),…