Year: 2019

winter change

From: Sarita Hartz Subject: Daffodils surviving the winter Message Body: Hi, I’m writing a book in which I use daffodils as a metaphor. I’m curious about the process daffodils go through to survive the winter. It intrigues me. I read…

2019 Bloomington Show – ADS Award Winners

Gold Ribbon and Intermediate Ribbon Winner

The 2019 national daffodil show of the American Daffodil Society was held May 3-4 in Bloomington, Minnesota. Due to an extremely late season, there were very few daffodils in bloom in Minnesota. In order to have a respectable number of…

Where were you when I needed you?

On returning from Minneapolis on Sunday I did a walk around to see what might have been. My large patch of Killearnan was in bud, having braved the snow (twice) and heavy rains of the week. The top three blooms…

N. broussonetii bulb

Narcissus broussonetii bulb

I thought some might enjoy this photo of a Narcissus broussonetii bulb I recently unpotted. It had just two, large, fleshy roots with rough horizontal ridges along the length. I grew it in a pumice-based bonsai medium that it seemed…