The final post in this set will cover five stem and higher collections. WDS has several special awards for five stem collections, some of which share characteristics with collection calsses at the National Show. There are also some fairly unique…
In this post we will cover the standard single and three stem results. Best in show was “Lesley”, exhibited by Karen Cogar. Peter Ramsey has hybridized some superior daffodils over his career, but it was going to take something special…
I bought a large number of clearance daffodils from local WalMart stores late last fall that were labeled ‘Jetfire’ and ‘Thalia’. I gave some bags away, planted some, and kept some refrigerated and a few weeks ago potted them up.…
The Washington Daffodil Society held its sixty-ninth annual show this past weekend in Alexandria, Virginia at the Alexandria Scottish Rite Temple. The Temple is shrouded in history, as George Washington and several of the other founding fathers of our nation…
Friends, my records show that I bought this cultivar in 1992 at the Ameriflora expo in Columbus, as ‘Tamar Fire’. It should be a double, but as you can see, it’s not. It’s a lovely intermediate-sized cultivar, about 72mm diameter,…