Author: Lawrence Trevanion, Australia

mid July

The first of the heavy frosts have hit. Fortunately I picked a few tazettas before hand – this is good as they are ever likely to be at this time of year in this climate. The hybrids between Emerald Sea…

Early Winter report

Winter, so far, has been extremely mild with green leaves still on the oaks and roses trying to flower. The paperwhites are still respectable. This is probably a paperwhite dubius hybrid. This is a nice specimen of N. panizzianus OP…

Autumn report

Finally all the seedlings have been planted. A few interesting things flowered over the Autumn. Definite 8O-O’s are emerging from the elegans hybrids and good form and clean whites are emerging from  elegans x Soleil D’Or (First Stanza).   Right…