4 comments for “bulbocodium season”

  1. Wow – they look so gorgeous, hard to decide which are the prettiest.
    Are they all the result of your breeding programme or from open pollination?
    Thank you for posting the pictures!

  2. Thanks Petra.

    I sometimes plant open pollinated seed if I think the parent is interesting enough. These are all selections, mostly from planned crosses. The yellow petunioide one at the top of the picture is op, the three to its left  supposedly have Gold Step seedlings as the pollen parent.

  3. I see the increased petal width and good uniform color and substance. What else are you striving for with your program?

  4. Hi Michael,

    I want them to be hardy, floriferous, and remontant. I keep trying to get pink/orange from main division flowers into flowers of this type but haven’t yet succeeded, as you can see. I think it will come but the route might be unexpected. On the whole the program is an exploration rather than one with predetermined goals.

    I don’t suppose bulbocodiums are for everyone but in my climate they obviously have valuable attributes.

    The zoom presentation I did covers it pretty well.

    https://daffnet.org/2021/04/lawrence-trevanions-program-on-breeding-advances-in-divisions-5-6-7-8-and-10-in-australia/

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