ADS Show and Grow is now available in the Kindle store! Just search for American daffodils show and Grow for a Kindle version. Forgive me if this is something everyone else knows – I just found out and am irrationally…
Year: 2018
Sprouting bulbs
From: Gisela Saheba Subject: Rescued antique daffodil bulbs in distress Message Body: Some 5 weeks ago I rescued some antique daffodil bulbs form a 300 year old farmhouse, ahead of the bulldozer. I put them into a bucket and layered…
Narcissus miniatus
I have been line breeding N. miniatus through several generations trying to make ever more rounded flowers. They are just starting to bloom now. When they appear I know that the daffodil season has started. There should be even rounder…
Narcissus deficiens?
The name N. deficiens is sometimes used for N. miniatus. It is derived from an old description of a Narcissus that flowered in cultivation that did not have a corona but instead a brown smudge at the edge of the…
The saga of an interesting autumn bloomer
Back in 2001 I placed pollen of John Hunter’s Emerald Sea onto a flower of N. cavanillesii. Eventually a plant from the cross flowered and then did so for several years until the pot it was in was misplaced and…
Central Daffodil Group – Late Show 2018
Saturday 6 October was a very late date for an end of season daffodil show when the season was running about 10 days early and had all but finished for most growers .The venue was new to all – Te Takeretanga…