We have received a query from Denise who lives in Utah asking where she can buy bulbs of Grant Mitsch’s daffodil ‘Lemon Tree‘ . If you can provide a source for these bulbs, please send Denise an email
Year: 2017
Introduction
For my talk on bulbs last night I used the following abstract. I thought it was quite good myself and you are welcome to use it. The Story of Bulbs Bulbs store beauty that stimulates our senses from taste to…
Open Pollination/culled daffodil seeds/bulbs
If you go out into the fields or flower beds after dark you will sometimes see hundreds of not thousands of moths working over the blooms on the daffodils. During a mild spring night with warmer weather, clear night sky…
Chinese Sacred Lily
I have known about the Chinese Sacred Lily for some time. I am giving a prestigious lecture on bulbs and have delved into literature and art for the talk, deciding as part of the talk to use the daffodil as…
Open Pollination
My first steps as a hybridizer were to cross standard daffodils. I read in the literature that it is not necessary to prevent open pollination because only 1 to 1,5 % of the flowers generate seed without pollination of…
Daffodils in Iceland
My sister (Karen Spotts) and I visited Iceland for two weeks in early June. Iceland is quite interesting – with countless beautiful waterfalls and captivating rugged territory. There are more sheep and goats than I would want to count –…