I produced the first ever batch of Single Chinese Sacred Lily seeds about 10 years ago using pollen from various true tazettas. Many excellent big vigorous polyploid plants resulted, including this one which is ridiculously fertile! It closely resembles and…
This seedling is Fascination Waltz (an intermediate trumpet) x Dubose J11-2, (Evenlode x viridiflorus) Used Fascination Waltz hoping to increase the length of the corona and hoping for green color from the pollen parent. Still have 3 or 4 more…
Fred Silcock, one of the world’s finest daffodil hybridizers, left this earth on February 7, 2019 after a short illness. Fred’s magnificent seedlings were not widely known because he avoided entering his blooms in shows. He simply disdained the recognition…
Dear All, Having never had any success with early pollination, last year my crosses were all blown away by the Beast from the East! So this year I have two daffodils in flower for a couple of day just crying…
This year most of the tazettas were planted early, shaded, and watered. In spite of high temperatures one seedling 14_05T has flowered earlier than any daffodil has flowered here. It is a clear outlier and it will be interesting to…
Dear ADS friends: I just learn Margaret Ford, wife of Skip Ford, passed today. She was an ADS judge, avid daffodil grower and shower here in my home state of Virginia. I know many remember her as she and Skip…