Month: February 2024

Spring is early this year

Spring is about a week early here as the first blooms open–a couple of mini seedlings.  The first is a Helen Link 1 Y-Y seedling (I forgot the number), and the second is a seedling of mine, 73-11-16 (Wee Bee…

summer tazettas

This summer has been mild and wet in Canberra. The result is that tazettas started flowering in late January and quite a few are flowering a month later, which is still very early by usual standards. 19_67T is a standard…

Nancy Mott

This is starting out to be a sad sad spring. We learned of the passing of Nancy Mott from Greenwich Connecticut on February 20. She was a pillar of the society and will be greatly missed. Alex, her son passed…

Qdaffs.us website is open for ordering

Daffodilian friends, We delayed the opening of our website qdaffs.us  in January, but it is now open. A way to pass the time while waiting for Taylor Swift’s plane to get in later today. Please excuse the shameless commercial promotion.…

2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break

Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much.  As a pollen dabber, I…