Author: Ben Blake

Weekend Show at Roger’s Gardens

Tom Hendren and his wife Linda entered two daffodils for the Roger’s Gardens daffodil show and both blooms won a ribbon.  Tom was looking at the winning daffodil table and I asked if I could photograph him and post his…

More Autumn blooming tazettas

Michael Berrigan visited Bill Welch this past Monday and later with us for dinner that evening.  He brought the tazettas in these photos which are currently blooming in Bills’s field.  Bill Welch grows many tazettas near the Pacific ocean on Montery…

ADS Internet Future

In our role as the ADS Internet Services Committee Co-Chairs, Nancy Tackett and I recognize that for the ADS Internet presence to survive generations, new people must be involved.  This is the same problem breeders, raisers,  and hybridizers face, that…

2013 Fortuna California Show Venue

Northern California Daffodil Society members added our daffodils to the Fortuna Garden Club’s entries.  The garden club members contributed many beautiful artistic arrangements and some new local people exhibited their blooms for the first time.  One of the most obvious…

2013 Murphys Show – Miniature Stuffed Cup

This seedling was exhibited by Harold Koopowitz and Marilynn Howe in the 3 Miniatures by Hybridizer Ribbon section.  I think Kirby Fong will photographs the set of three. In my own case, I thought this seedling, a “4 W-YW stuffed…